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Now That I'm 80

A birthday tribute to Jean Evans

By The Extended Evans Family modalman

Jean Evans is in her eightieth year. This book is a collection of memoirs from all her immediate family of children and grandchildren combined with a collection of photographs of family members going back to her grandparents photographed in 1918. Happy birthday Mom and Granny Jean!

Publish Date  July 19, 2008

Dimensions  Standard Landscape  80 pgs

Category  Biographies & Memoirs

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About the Author

Bill Evans
modalman  San Francisco, CA
Working with his long time partner who handles the photography, Bill prefers to focus on the writing, “In a way I don’t really ‘see’ an event until I’ve written about it. It’s as if the act of holing up in a room for hours in some way a substitutes for simply being out there and reliving an actual experience.” Explaining further, “I write like a photographer composes pictures. Each paragraph is crafted to be exactly 10” x 8” and I strive to place the key sentence at a point in the paragraph where it creates maximum artistic tension when looked at on the page.” This revelation in writing came about when Bill was accidentally lulled into a rather literal interpretation of Milan Kundera’s The Art of the Novel. Having just started it, he put it down to go to the bathroom and when he returned he absentmindedly picked up an adjacent open copy of Roland Barthes’ Camera Lucida, the seminal book on photography, and continued reading, thinking it the Kundera tome.

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