Volume 14, Number 5 · March 12, 1970
The Uncompleted Dossier
By Denis Donoghue
Travels with My Aunt
by Graham Greene
Viking, 244 pp., $5.95
Blind Love, and Other Stories
by V.S. Pritchett
Random House, 246 pp., $5.95
Mr. Greene's new novel begins in England and ends in Paraguay. The narrator, Henry Pulling, is a retired bank manager with 'a weakness for funerals' and an affection for dahlias. At his mother's funeral he meets his aunt, Augusta, his mother's sister, now about seventy-five years old but still going strong with a Negro lover named Zachary Wordsworth. Augusta tells Henry that her sister was not, in fact, his mother; the espoused saint, indeed, 'should have had a white funeral.' Henry is reasonably curious about his origin, but he does not pester the theme, he is content to wait for disclosures.
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