The Jacket (the Star-Rover)

By: Jack London

The story is told in the first person by a convict of San Quentin Prison (professor of agricultural science Standing Darrell) who had been sentenced to death penalty. For a long time Darrell had been in an individual cell where he had been tortured by so called "jacket", a canvas cloth in which the whole body can be tightly laced, inducing angina.Looking for a method to mitigate the torture, Standing tries "the short death" (a kind of trance state) about which he found out from another prisoner while communicating by tapping. As a result, he travels among the stars and then experiences a lot of episodes of his past lives. The main part of the book contains the descriptions of the journeys to his old lives.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1719036101
• ISBN13: 9781719036108
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 130 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"