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Into thin air with lipstick: Leaving the scary wilderness of family life for some peace and quiet.(Features)(Books)

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From: The Christian Science Monitor
Date: 20020703
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Byline: Ron Charles

Henry David Thoreau went to suck the marrow out of life. Young Goodman Brown went to confront the devil. Little Red Riding Hood went to see her grandmother with those big teeth. Everybody's got a good reason for going into the woods.

Hannah Blue, the heroine in Gwendolen Gross's charming new novel, just needs to get away. For her, at first, the woods aren't anything but somewhere else - somewhere away from her stressful job, her neurotic family, and her perfect boyfriend.

"Getting Out" follows that old American tradition afforded by all this ...

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