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Travels with My Aunt

Written by: Graham Greene
Narrated by: Tim Pigott-Smith
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Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over 50 years at his mother’s funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon South wood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel through Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay...

Accompanying his aunt, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight society: mixing with hippies, war criminals and CIA men, as well as smoking pot, breaking all the currency regulations and eventually coming alive after a dull suburban life.

©1969 Graham Greene (P)2014 Audible, Inc. Classics Fantasy Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction
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Great reading, clever book

Tim Piggot-Smith is fabulous, providing a range of memorable voices in contrast with Henry's thoughful, observant, narration.

It's a very original plot, to have the boring life of the middle-age protaganist utterly upended by an elderly woman. I think the author similarly plays with upending assumptions (more common in 1969 perhaps) about youthfulness and agedness, parents and children, life and death, love and commitment, law and crime. All sprinkled with jokes about the absurdity of what was, back then, the shiny modern world.

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