The Star Rover
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- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2003
Summary
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. As Lorenzo Carcaterra argues in his Introduction, The Star Rover is “written with e…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812970043 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812970047 |
| Author: | Jack London, Lorenzo Carcaterra |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Modern Library Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2003 |
| Weight: | 249g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 132mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
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“A genuine quest for the myths of the unconscious… . [A work of] true power.” -Andrew Sinclair
“A genuine quest for the myths of the unconscious… . [A work of] true power.” —Andrew Sinclair
About The Author
Jack London
Lorenzo Carcaterra is the author of the novels Sleepers, Apaches, Gangster, and Street Boys, and a memoir, A Safe Place. He lives in New York.
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