Travels With My Aunt

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 bandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel herway, 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 allthe currency regulations....coming alive after a dul suburbian lifetime. In TRAVELS WITH MY AUNT Graham Greene not onlygives us intoxicating entertainment but also confronts us with some ofthe most perplexing of human dilemmas.