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SONGS FROM THE
BLACK CHAIR:
A Memoir of Mental Illness.
By Charles Barber. Univ. of Nebraska Press. 202 pp. $22
SPECIAL EFFECTS:
An Oral History.
By Pascal Pinteau. Translated from French by Laurel Hirsch. Abrams.
566 pp. $37.50