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Author: Date: SUNDAY, April 19, 1998
Page: N5
Section: Books

Factories close by the hundreds, in cities, small towns, and rural hamlets, but seldom are books written about them. In ``Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory'' (DoubleTake Books/Norton, $27.50), author Cathy N. Davidson and photographer Bill Bamberger chronicle the closing days of the century-old, family-owned White Furniture Co. in Mebane, N.C. Above, a worker in the rub-and-pack department.