The Jacket (The Star-Rover) - 9781978008175

A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to compress the whole body, inducing angina. Standing discovers how to withstand the torture by entering a kind of trance state, in which he walks among the stars and experiences portions of past lives.

• | Author: Jack London, Mybook
• | Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Oct 06, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 416 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1978008171
• | ISBN-13: 9781978008175