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Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene

Synopsis

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 society: mixing with hippies, war
criminals, CIA men; smoking pot, breaking all the currency regulations and
eventually coming alive after a dull suburban lifetime.

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