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The Star Rover - Softcover

London, Jack

 
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Synopsis

The Star Rover is the story of San Quentin death-row inmate Darrell Standing, who escapes the horror of prison life - and long stretches in a straitjacket - by withdrawing into vivid dreams of past lives, including incarnations as a French nobleman and an Englishman in medieval Korea. Based on the life and imprisonment of Jack London's friend Ed Morrell, this is one of the author's most complex and original works.

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Synopsis

Star Rover is a groundbreaking novel that was heavily influenced by the ideas of Freud and Jung and Eastern philosophies. Jack London wrote the story as a criticism of the terrible conditions that US prisoners suffered in the early 20th century.'

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