[Edit 11/20/14. Edit 4/2/15. Edit 1/19/16. Edit 8/28/16.]
Since this project has been mentioned elliptically on this
blog several times since December 2013, and since there is metadata related to
it that can be found online, and since a prospectus on another project (see
here) makes reference to it,
here is a thumbnail sketch:
The Revenant: A Portrait of a
Disastrous Exercise in Health Care, and the Blessings and Challenges of Texture
This is a book project that is envisioned to include three
parts:
* an initial, long part dealing with college education and
graduate school and early career in detail;
* a middle part dealing with workplace matters (during
thirties-age/middle age) in detail (one or more workplaces may be treated);
* a third part, dealing with family history, and phasing
into discussion of context and “texturalism,” with an eye to explaining
principles and practical examples.
There is a more direct description of the book’s themes that
has been circulated to people on my mailing list, and which can be provided on
this blog in due time.
The middle part is what relates to a long announcement on my
other blog about a manuscript titled The
Temps, which will not be available in the foreseeable future as a full book
(as have some other projects of mine I’ve mentioned), but parts of which may be
available in these ways:
(1) quoted to various purposes on one or more of my blogs;
(2) available as part or all of the
middle part of The Revenant [update 11/20/14: The foreseen edition of The Revenant scheduled to be released in June 2015 would not contain a sampling of The Temps]; and/or
(3) otherwise made available, as announced by various means.
The Revenant is
noted (in the current metadata in BowkerLink) as to be released in June 2015. [Update 4/2/15: The release date of The Revenant has been postponed to a date uncertain in 2016. Update 1/19/16: The release date was inadvertently noted in BowkerLink as Jan. 1, 2016, when I had meant it to be merely "2016," with date uncertain. I changed this to Dec. 31, 2016, but you should understand the date can be changed again to another point within 2016 or to sometime after. Update 8/28/16: Publication of this book is canceled. Further details are to come.]
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Please be advised that while metadata (available online for
some months) suggests certain dimensions of the book, it has been my plan from
the beginning—with me both (1) attending to the project (over months and to
date) with a fair amount of resolve and (2) evolving plans as various factors
encourage me to do—to make The Revenant
available in a variety of ways: as two
different versions (“official” and not) of the book (which may or may not
have the number of pages listed in the metadata, though the metadata numbering
should reflect the official book—and,
of course, this metadata in the future can be changed by me in BowkerLink); or,
as may entice readers, in subparts made
available separately, not representing the metadata-defined edition of the
book: so that, for instance, someone can order Part 1 and not the rest; or
Parts 2 and 3; or the like.
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Caveat about another book. By the way, if you Google “Bootstrap
Editorial Services,” you may see a link for a supposed pdf (dated March 1, 2014)
of the novel The Folder Hunt. I don’t
know who set this up or to what purpose, but that book cannot possibly have a
pdf online, because it is not available in a form that can be “pdf’d” as a single
file. It has to be produced by me in a sort of “print on demand” fashion, and
given the nature of the files and mechanicals behind it, there can’t be any one
pdf that would contain the whole book.
