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The Jacket (The Star-Rover)

The Jacket (The Star-Rover)

Author: Jack London
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication Date: 06 Oct 2017
ISBN-13: 9781978008175
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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.






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