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Briefly Noted.(A Long Way Gone)(The Terror)(Zoli)(Wish I Could Be There)(Brief article)(Book review)

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"Zoli," by Colum McCann

"The Terror," by Dan Simmons

"A Long Way Gone," by Ishmael Beah

Wish I Could Be There, by Allen Shawn (Viking; $24.95). Shawn, a composer and professor of music, probes the causes of his long struggle with agoraphobia--a fear of certain spaces which makes it difficult to "move forward in the world without knowing already what lies ahead"--in this vividly written combination of memoir and scientific inquiry. Approaching his phobia from Freudian, genetic, and neurological perspectives, Shawn, the son of a former editor of this ...

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