Jacket

by Jack London

Genres: Action & Adventure; Classics

Synopsis

Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin for murder, defies the will of prison officials who try to break his spirit with "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to tortuously compress the whole body. To survive, Standing discovers how to enter a trance state in which he walks among the stars and experiences past lives.

Release date: May 16, 2014

Publisher: Start Classics

Print pages: 252