Travels with My Aunt

Greene's fine sense of humor is displayed in this warm and far-reaching comic novel<em>Travels with My Aunt</em> a bestseller when it appeared originally. At his mother's funeral Henry Pulling a stuffy retired bank manager with an interest in dahlias meets his Aunt Augusta.</p>The indomitable Aunt Augusta pulls Henry along on a whirlwind adventure traveling with an old lover Wordsworth; Curran the founder of a doggies' church; O'Toole the C.I.A. man obsessed by statistics and his counterculture daughter; and old Mr. Visconti who has been wanted by Interpol for twenty years. Henry describes his activities with shock and bewilderment and finally with the tenderness of a fellow traveler going their way.</p>