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| | George Harrar: Books: The Spinning of Evan Birch |
 | | George Harrar's taut psychological drama, ''The Spinning Man,'' occurs almost exclusively in the mind of Evan Birch, a professor in the troubled philosophy department in a small-town college. |
 | | And quite a mind it is, as Birch dissects Wittgenstein, volleys lovingly with his wife over Proust, comforts their twin 10-year-old sons, and takes notice of the peculiar habits of his female students. |
 | | Whatever tensions exist in the Birch household seem unremarkable -- until he's pulled over by the local police, handcuffed in front of the two startled boys, dragged to the precinct house, and told he's been spotted at the place where a 16-year-old cheerleader recently went missing. |
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