Goodbye Buenos Aires

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Buenos Aires in the 1920s was a fascinating destination for a young person looking for a new life: a place of fantasy adventure and prospects of fast wealth. In </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Goodbye Buenos Aires </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Andrew Graham-Yooll weaves together a lightly fictionalized biography of his father who arrived from Edinburgh penniless in 1928 and an account of twentieth-century Argentina. He provides a vivid description of the country of the torment of emigration and of the catalogue of characters - from the Prince of Wales to Lawrence Durrell and Aristotle Onassis - who flaunted their fortunes and vented their fury about life in this city on the River Plate.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>This book is the story of a man told by his son who in doing so poignantly recovers both the life and the love of his father.</span></p>