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henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at what he supposes to be his mother`s funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to bandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay. . Through Aunt Augusta, a veteran of Europe`s hotel bedrooms. Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking allthe currency regulations. . . . coming alive after a dul suburbian lifetime. In TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT Graham Greene not only gives us intoxicating entertainment but also confronts us with some of the most perplexing of human dilemmas.ISBN - 9780099282587
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Pages : 227
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