Travels with my aunt

Description

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.

Description

Aunt Augusta, in her late 70's embroils her bachelor nephew, an utterly respectable, dahlia-growing, retired bank manager, in a series of wild escapades. The action moves from London, across the European continent to Istanbul, and ends in Paraguay. Most of the characters are from Aunt Augusta's somewhat murky past, although there are contemporary figures as a CIA agent and his hippie daughter, and Wordsworth from Sierra Leone, who lives with Aunt Augusta as her valet.

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Genres

• Fiction.

Other Editions

• Travels with my auntViking Press1970-01-01
• Travels with my auntBodley Head1969-01-01
• Resor med moster AugustaP.A. Norstedt & Söner1970-01-01
• Travels with my auntPenguin Books in association with The Bodley Head1972-01-01
• Travels with my auntPenguin Books1977-01-01
• Travels With My AuntHardcoverISIS Large Print Books1986-06-01