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Twenty Days With Julian & Little Bunny by Papa.(Book Review)

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Date: 20030701
Author:Evans, Paul

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE New York Review Books 76 pages ***

Nathaniel Hawthorne on bedwetting? Intended originally for his wife Sophia's eyes alone, this chronicle of the three weeks in 1851 that Hawthorne spent taking care of his five-year-old son, while his wife and daughters were off visiting relatives, is endearing, a snapshot of the literary titan as doting dad. Absent here is the dense prose of The Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables, as Hawthorne discusses berry picking, a day trip to a Shaker village and the death of the family rabbit. Novelist Paul Auster, who ...

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