Travels with My Aunt
February 19, 2020 - Comment
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:
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A good “holiday” read. Graham Greene alledgedly said this was the only book he ever wrote just for fun. It is quite funny but is not as thought provoking as his “Monsignor Quixote” However in spite of a rather unlikely and far fetched plot and improbable characters it is still worth a read, preferably somewhere sunny and within reach of a G & T.
WELL WRITTEN OF COURSE This was our book club choice and an author Iâve not read for many years. I liked the story in general but the end was a little rushed and the one thing most readers might have guessed was simply stated at the end with no real explanation which is why Iâve only awarded it 4 stars. I love the concept of a new and exciting life after the age of retirement and Greene pokes fun at the naivety of a boring man chained to a desk for decades.
Around the world in eighty lays Graham Greene claims this to be the only book he wrote “for fun.” No good complaining this isn’t Brighton Rock or any of the author’s novels of relgious introspection, fine though many of them are. This is a romp with little serious intent, though a few sideswipes at the CIA and the church in its various manifestations are not resisted.Henry Pilling, the narrator, is a bank manager in early retirement enjoying cultivating his dahlias. Augusta, his 75-year-old aunt, is a woman…