Outskirts Press announces Metafizzical Essays and Others, the latest by author Nicholas Hancock

Jan. 6, 2010 - PRLog -- Outskirts Press, Inc. has published Metafizzical Essays and Others by Nicholas Hancock, which is the author's most recent book to date. The 6.14 x 9.21 paperback in the LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays category is available worldwide on book retailer websites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble for a suggested retail price of $19.95. The webpage at www.outskirtspress.com/metafizzicalessays was launched simultaneously with the book's publication.
   
About the Book (Excerpts & Info)
 
These 87 essays and assorted writings came into being over the past thirty years. A glance at the Contents will show that they have been collected under some fifteen different headings, among which are Liverpool, God, the primacy of the physical and the United States of America. The aim, when Hancock's single finger hovered over the keyboard, was simply to hit the right letters and never — despite his thirty-two years in the profession never to teach. At all times he has tried to see the underside of things, to become aware of aspects of experience that habit or optimism, or both at the same time, sometimes blind us to. In choosing which of his stock of 197 essays to include, Hancock, together with his mentor and adviser, John Dixon, were driven by the desire to achieve some degree of variety in both style and subject matter.
 
Deftly constructed at 335 pages, Metafizzical Essays and Others is being aggressively promoted to appropriate markets with a focus on the LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays category. With U.S. wholesale distribution through Ingram and Baker & Taylor, and pervasive online availability through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and elsewhere, Metafizzical Essays and Others meets consumer demand through both retail and library markets with a suggested retail price of $19.95.

Additionally, Metafizzical Essays and Others can be ordered by retailers or wholesalers for the maximum trade discount price set by the author in quantities of ten or more from the Outskirts Press wholesale online bookstore at www.outskirtspress.com/buybooks

ISBN: 9781432749224 Format: 6.14 x 9.21 paperback SRP: $19.95

 
For more information or to contact the author, visit www.outskirtspress.com/metafizzicalessays
 
About the Author
 
Nicholas Hancock spent his late adolescence as a gaucho in Uruguay.

After a year at the Sorbonne he graduated, before emigrating with his wife to Canada, where he taught, obtaining an MA in Etudes québécoises and having three children. In 1989, after his divorce, his novel La Béatification was published. In 1990–91, during a seven-thousand-mile bicycle journey round the Mediterranean, he met his present wife in Prague. In 1998 his poetry Choses tristes was published, followed by the English poems, Window for a Monad. In 2003 he won the Acorn Prize for his geriatric romance, Daniel and Miriam.


 
About Outskirts Press, Inc.  
 
Outskirts Press, Inc. offers full-service, custom self-publishing and book marketing services for authors seeking a cost-effective, fast, and flexible way to publish and distribute their books worldwide while retaining all their rights and full creative control. Available for authors globally at www.outskirtspress.com and located on the outskirts of Denver, Colorado, Outskirts Press represents the future of book publishing, today.