Travels with My Aunt

Paperback, 313 pages

English language

Published by Transaction Publishers.

ISBN:
978-1-4128-0741-8
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Greeneland has been described often as a land bleak and severe. A whisky priest dies in one village, a self-hunted man lives with lepers in another. But Greeneland has its summer regions, and in the sunlight everything looks a bit different. Here Aunt Augusta travels with her black lover, Wordsworth, Curran, the founder of a doggie's church, the CIA, man obsessed by statistics and his hippie daughter; and old Mr. Visconti, who has been wanted by Interpol for twenty years. Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, unexpectedly caught up with them, describes their activities at first with shock and bewilderment and finally with the tenderness of a fellow traveler going their way.

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Dear, old problematic Graham

3 stars

Oh, my dear, old, problematic Graham. So good, and yet so bad. This time, in a dramatic shift from his usual, troubled reflections on humanity and colonialism, he tells the unlike adventures of Aunt Augusta, with an insatiable appetite for men and a wacky moral compass, and Mr Pulling, her nephew, a retired banker with a passion for dahlias. These two characters, and Graham's witty writing, saved the book. Mostly.

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  • Classics
  • Literature - Classics / Criticism