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Article: `Dan Eldon: The Art of Life'
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- New York Amsterdam News
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- December 5, 2001
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Bowser, A.J.
New York Amsterdam News
12-05-2001
`Dan Eldon: The Art of Life'
The "The Art of Life" is sated with the artwork of Dan Eldon, which is
befitting because "life imitates art." The book, written by Jennifer New,
is no imitation; however, it is the genuine composite of a young man who
did anything but imitate life. He lived it lividly. He lived it lovingly.
He lived it until it was lost to him on the streets of Somalia.
The hardbound, handsomely decorated book explores the genesis of Eldon's
beginning and the revelations of his too-short lifetime. Although his end
came suddenly at 22, his life up to that point would be enough for a great
length of volumes on adventure, as was Eldon's ...