Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story is a remarkably contemporary-seeming portrait of a man’s unpremeditated, life-changing act. Wakefield leaves his wife for a week, only to stay away twenty years, taking up secret residence just a block away from his previous life. Read here, for our radio adaptation, by writer and Hawthorne devotee Paul Auster.
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