Travels with my Aunt
New York: Viking Press, (1970). First American Edition. 8vo.8-5/8" x 6". Lavender paper covered boards. White cloth spine stamped in lavender. Lavender endpapers. 244 pp. Top edge of text block stained lavender. Tight, clean very good copy with one small smudge on spine which corresponds with a small closed tear in the same spot on dust jacket (see spine photos). / Jacket is crisp and very good with a little ruffling at bottom edge of spine. Spine is somewhat faded. Item #1078
Greeneland has been described often as a land bleak and severe. A whiskey 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 doggies' church, the C.I.A. 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 traveller going their way.
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