Friday, November 04, 2011

Travels with my aunt



Author: Greene, Graham, 1904-1991

Title: Travels with my aunt

Published: New York: Penguin Books, 2004

Description: xvi, 254 p. ; 22 cm.

Call Number: PR6013 R44 T7 2004

Note(s): "Graham Greene centennial, 1904-2004"--Cover; introduction by Gloria Emerson

Summary: 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

Subject(s):
  • British -- Foreign countries -- Fiction
  • Women travelers -- Fiction
  • Older women -- Fiction
  • Travelers -- Fiction
  • Retirees -- Fiction
  • Aunts -- Fiction
  • Humorous stories
Read: October 6, 2011