Travels With My Aunt
(Vintage Voyages)
(Sprache: Englisch)
Greene takes us on a wild, unconventional and enlightening voyage with an ordinary, retired bank manager and his eccentric, daring aunt.
Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years...
Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years...
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Greene takes us on a wild, unconventional and enlightening voyage with an ordinary, retired bank manager and his eccentric, daring aunt. 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 abandon Southwood, to travel to Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay, and a shiftless, twilight society of hippies, war criminals, CIA men that will help Henry come alive after a dull suburban life.
VINTAGE VOYAGES: A world of journeys, from the tallest mountains to the depths of the mind
Autoren-Porträt von Graham Greene
Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Graham Greene
- 2019, 272 Seiten, Maße: 19,6 x 12,7 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Vintage Classics
- ISBN-10: 1784875333
- ISBN-13: 9781784875336
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.07.2019
Sprache:
Englisch
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Rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings...the tragic and comic ironies of love, loyalty and belief The Times
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