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Travels with My Aunt

by: Graham Greene (author)

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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.

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Format: audiobook

ASIN: B00550L6UI

Publish date: 2011-11-06

Publisher: Audible Studios

Edition language: English

Category:

Classics, Novels, Humor, Comedy, Literature, European Literature, British Literature, Book Club, Literary Fiction, 20th Century, English Literature

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Mike Finn rated it

6 years ago

http://mikefinn.booklikes.com Mike Finn 3.5 "Travels With My Aunt" by Graham Greene - An amusing entertainment that becomes something more ambiguous

text "Travels With My Aunt" by Graham Greene - An amusing entertainment that becomes something more ambiguous

My wife and I both had vague but positive memories of having read "Travels With My Aunt" way back in the last century so we decided to give the audiobook version a try and refresh our memories. Tim Pigott-Smith is the narrator and he gives a wonderful performance, providing just the right voices ...

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Lillelara rated it

8 years ago

http://blahblahblah.booklikes.com Lillelara 4.0 Travels with my Aunt

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Travels with my Aunt is a fun and enjoyable read about Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager somewhere in his fifties, and how his life gets turned upside down when he meets his Aunt Augusta at his moher´s funeral. All of a sudden Henry´s boring dahlia-filled suburban life is turned into a life of t...

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Bettie's Books rated it

11 years ago

http://bettie.booklikes.com Bettie's Books 4.0 Travels With My Aunt

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bookshelves: published-1969, summer-2010, amusing Read on August 15, 2010 Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his old aunt for the first time in over 50 years. She persuades him to travel with her. Through his aunt, a veteran of Europe's hotel bedrooms, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight ...

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BrokenTune rated it

12 years ago

http://BrokenTune.booklikes.com BrokenTune 5.0 Travels with My Aunt

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I laughed out loud so many times reading this book. It is sublime and it is subversive, and the dialogue between Aunt Augusta and Henry actually reminds me of some conversations I have had with my great-uncle, whose stories have influenced me in a similar way that Henry has been affected by his Aunt...

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Telynor's Library, and then some rated it

12 years ago

http://telynor.booklikes.com Telynor's Library, and then some 5.0

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I was very happy with this one, as middle aged banker Harry Pullings is yanked out of his dull, complacent retirement by his Aunt Augusta. Forced to travel with her across Europe and eventually Paraguay, he finds a world full of adventure and absurdity with all sorts of strange encounters, and shame...

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