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From: Town & Country
Date: 20030801
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The latest gem rescued from obscurity by the New York Review of Books's publishing arm: Nathaniel Hawthorne's TWENTY DAYS WITH JULIAN & LITTLE BUNNY BY PAPA ($16.95), a collection of journal entries written during the summer of 1851 (with an insightful introduction by the novelist Paul Auster). For nearly three weeks, Hawthorne's wife and two young daughters left him alone in Lenox, Massachusetts, with his five-year-old son, Julian. His chronicle of their daily, commonplace rituals (walks into town for the mail; adventures at a nearby lake) and his warmhearted exasperation ...
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