num_pages: 262
description: Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, meets his septuagenarian Aunt Augusta for the first time in over fifty years at his mother's funeral. Soon after, she persuades Henry to abandon Southwood, his dahlias and the Major next door to travel her way, through Brighton, Paris, Istanbul, Paraguay... Accompanying his aunt, Henry joins a shiftless, twilight mixing with hippies, war criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking all the currency regulations and eventually coming alive after a dull suburban lifetime.
language: English
title: Travels with My Aunt
titlecomplete: Travels with My Aunt
characters: Ercole Viscontin, Zachary Wordsworth, Monsieur Achile Dambreuse, Aunt Augusta Bertman, Henry Pulling, Mrs. Keene, Sergent Sparrow
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Comedy, Humor, Literature, Classics, Novels, Travel, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 14665
places: Brighton, England, Istanbul, Paraguay, London, England
publisher: VINTAGE