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Overview
A framing story is told in the first person by Darrell Standing, a university professor serving life imprisonment in San Quentin State Prison for murder. Prison officials try to break his spirit by means of a torture device called "the jacket," a canvas jacket which can be tightly laced so as to compress the whole body, inducing angina. Standing discovers how to withstand the torture by entering a kind of trance state, in which he walks among the stars and experiences portions of past lives.
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- ISBN-13: 9781978008175
- ISBN-10: 1978008171
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publish Date: October 2017
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.85 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.23 pounds
- Page Count: 418
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