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By Andrew Solomon. 576 pp. New York, Scribner, 2001. $28. ISBN 0-684-85466-X.

Andrew Solomon is a successful and much admired author. He writes regularly for a number of periodicals and is an award-winning novelist. By his own account, he grew up as a healthy, happy, white American from a privileged background. He enjoyed positive relationships with his family and had a strong network of friends. Yet, in the early 1990s, depression crept up on him and took over his life, so that even getting out of bed and going to take a shower became an overwhelming challenge that he frequently failed to overcome. Despite success in his career, he became unable to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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