Travels with my aunt [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

Greene, Graham

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099282585 ISBN 13: 9780099282587

Casa editrice: Random UK, 2001

Riassunto

Graham Greene proves a wonderful storyteller in this hilarious tale of the eccentricity of families and the pomposity of the middle class.

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, 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 all the currency regulations and eventually coming alive after a dull suburban life.

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.

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Recensione:

"Rich in exactly etched and moving portraits of real human beings...the tragic and comic ironies of love, loyalty and belief" (The Times)

"The most ingenious, inventive and exciting of our novelists - V S Pritchett, The Times"

"Funny and bizarre... This is a Greene with the lightest touches" (Susan Hill The Lady)

"No serious writer of [the twentith century] has more thoroughly invaded and shaped the public imagination than Graham Greene - Time "

Descrizione del libro:

A witty, inventive read with anyone for a passion for travel.

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• Editore: Random UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0099282585
• ISBN 13: 9780099282587
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272