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AWAY FROM IT ALL, by Cedric Belfrage, New York, Simon & Schuster, up pp 415 Price $3.

"A WAY From It All", An Escapologist's Notebook is the pseudo-diary of a person who tried to get away from the fact of life. An escapologist, the author tells us, is "a person who by looks the facts of life in the back of the neck or by sheer force of the imagination conjures them out of existence or urns away from them". Bullfrog, a young English journalist, made his hold attempt to escape these facts of life, and because he failed, because he soon forgot exactly what it was that he was trying to get away from, he wrote his book. With its structure as a sort of travel diary, the book soon becomes a lively commentary on the contemporary world, enlivened by the sparkle and humor of a truly fascinating personality.

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