The Star Rover - Softcover

London, Jack

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486819388 ISBN 13: 9780486819389

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc., 2017

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"A genuine quest for the myths of the unconscious. [A work of] true power." Andrew Sinclair. An inmate sentenced to life at San Quentin escapes the horrors of his incarceration through astral travel in this final novel by the author of The Call of the Wild. London delivers a moving indictment of the brutality and corruption of the prison system while marvelously illustrating the power of imagination.

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"A genuine quest for the myths of the unconscious. . . . [A work of] true power." --Andrew Sinclair

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Inspired by his friend Ed Morell, who spent five years in the barbaric San Quentin jail, The Star Rover is a searing indictment of a violent and corrupt penal system. Describing the brutality of a life behind bars, it explores the power of imagination to transcend physical hardship, and ultimately sustain hope.

This new Rebel Inc. edition has specially commissioned pieces by two Scottish lifers who have experienced at first-hand the inhumanity of prison life.

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