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Travels With My Aunt
(Paperback, 1993)
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Author: Graham Greene
In Graham Greene's comic novel a staid middle-aged bank manager, newly retired, has his life rearran...
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Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0140185011
ISBN-13: 9780140185010
Jan 1993
Publisher: Penguin USA
Reissue
Twentieth Century Classics Series
Language: English |
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Synopsis
In Graham Greene's comic novel a staid middle-aged bank manager, newly retired, has his life rearranged by his eccentric, freewheeling elderly aunt Augusta. Henry Pulling has very modest expectations when he agrees to a holiday on the Continent with Aunt Augusta, but the trip turns into something he is, to say the least, not prepared for. Augusta, despite her respectable facade, is not only a bohemian and a libertine, but an arms smuggler and secret agent as well. Their itinerary becomes more and more complicated, leading from London to Istanbul to Paraguay, as Pulling is dragged into a succession of intrigues--discovering, in the process, a shocking secret about his family history. Needless to say, he also finds himself really living for the first time in his stunted life. Greene commented in his memoirs that TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT was the only book he had ever written purely for the fun of it.
| Details | | Series: | Twentieth Century Classics Series |
| Size | | Height: | 7.8 in | | Width: | 5.0 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 7.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"The book is a comedy...and sometimes a farce, but it is also Mr. Greene's De Senectute, turned upon age and death....Turned toward death, the book implies, one longs for a way of life free from the venom of morality, grim death thwarted by happy days....The general tone is easy, the comedy liberal, the attitudes might even be described as generous if they were embodied in characters about whom we were invited to care. But most of these figures care so much for themselves that they do not need our concern."
New York Review of Books - Denis Donoghue (03/12/1970)
"For much of the journey ['Travels With My Aunt'] is fun, and there are many enticing surprises. Let us not be ungrateful for small favors. Halway-Greene is better than most others all-the-way. It's just not Greene at top form. Which is absolutely the best."
Book World - Daniel Stern (02/08/1970)
"Much of ['Travels With My Aunt'] can be seen as deliberate self-parody....The book unmistakably turns its back on the Orphic preoccupations with the hereafter that characterized Greene's Catholic novels, and wholeheartedly embraces a Bacchic emphasis on the here and now."
New York Times Book Review - Richard Boston (01/25/1970)
"This is a richly comic novel with none of the introspection and soul-searching Greene has indulged in the past....Likely to be in great demand and recommended for all fiction collections."
Stern
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