Travels with my aunt

Description:

Greeneland has been described often as a land bleak and severe. A whisky priest dies in one village, a self-hunted man lives with lepers in another. But Greeneland has its summer regions, and in the sunlight everything looks a bit different. Here Aunt Augusta travels with her black lover, Wordsworth, Curran, the founder of a doggie's church, the CIA, man obsessed by statistics and his hippie daughter; and old Mr. Visconti, who has been wanted by Interpol for twenty years. Henry Pulling, a retired bank manager, unexpectedly caught up with them, describes their activities at first with shock and bewilderment and finally with the tenderness of a fellow traveler going their way.

subjects: Aunts,  Travel,  Fiction,  Voyages and travels,  Older women in fiction,  Older women,  British in fiction,  Voyages and travels in fiction,  Retirees,  Aunts in fiction,  Open Library Staff Picks,  British,  Adventure stories,  Travelers in fiction,  Women travelers,  Women travelers in fiction,  Travelers,  Retirees in fiction,  Humorous stories,  British and irish fiction (fictional works by one author),  Large type books,  Alienation (Social psychology),  Fiction, humorous, general,  Fiction, family life,  Europe, fiction,  Fiction in English

Places: Foreign countries,  Europe

Times: 1960s