She shakes him up, drags him on exotic travels, and gives him some better reasons to live. It's noticeable that there's a certain family resemblance to Patrick Dennis's "Auntie Mame," penned roughly a decade earlier. But these two books involve protaganists at different ends of life: a boy, and a retiree, and, let's face it, anything written by Graham Greene, no matter how late in his career, has his touch, and his thoughts. The plot's episodic, and not as tight as some of the writer's great spy stories.
But the book's well written. Furthermore, you can see the Greene touch in some of the book's flavorful characters. In addition to Aunt Augusta, there's the Turkish cop, Colonel Hakim, one of several powerful third world law 'enforcers' created by Greene. And 'Wordsworth,' as Augusta calls him, an emigrant from Sierra Leone, a part of the world with which Greene was very familiar, as he'd spent World War II there as a spy.
Wordsworth played by Lou Gossett in the film is fiercely in love with Augusta, a woman at least twice his age, and devotes his life to her.
One of the more challenging results of the first-person narration is that the reader, like Henry, doesn't know what Aunt Augusta is up to, until we're told. There's a longish period, in terms of this short book, when Augusta is out of touch, and Henry thinks of really solidifying his suburban retirement -- as if it could be much more solid, he's already pretty well set in concrete -- by marrying a sad local spinster.
In another interesting use of the first person, Greene does not always tell us what Henry's thinking: when the narrator at last realizes some of the central facts of his Aunt's life -- some of us might ask what took him so long -- he doesn't share his thought processes with us. And the subject matter is touching: a man no longer young, discovering family he didn't know he had, rescued from a dread life cultivating his dahlias by that family. What could be bad? Posting Komentar. Selasa, 19 November [P You could not be worthless when reviewing this book Travels With My Aunt, By Graham Greene Never mind if you don't have adequate time to visit the publication shop and also search for the preferred book to review.
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