The jacket
(2012)
Fiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Andrews UK : Made available through hoopla, 2012
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781781668597 (electronic bk.) MWT11471598, 1781668590 (electronic bk.) 11471598
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Jack London's classic novel from 1915 follows the story of Darrell Standing, a university professor who, while serving life imprisonment in San Quentino Prison for murder, is subjected to the torture of The Jacket, a straitjacket that induces angina by compressing the person's whole body. Standing discovers that he can go into a trance-like state to escape the pain, and in this state walks among the stars and re-lives events from past lives. It was published in the US under the title 'The Star Rover' and has had two cinema adaptations
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