The star rover
By: Jack London ; introduction by Leslie Fiedler.
Series: Literary classics; Literary classics (Amherst, N.Y.)
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Amherst, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
Subjects: California State Prison at San Quentin -- Fiction; Death row inmates -- Fiction; Reincarnation -- Fiction; Prisoners -- Fiction; Prisons -- Fiction; San Quentin (Calif.) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In The Star Rover London indicts the savagery of prison life: San Quentin death row inmate Darrell Standing can escape his confinement and torture only by withdrawing into dreams of past lives during what he calls his "eternal recurrence on earth." Thus the fantastic becomes a vehicle for exposing social inequities and religious hypocrisy.

Leslie Fiedler, Samuel Clemens Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo and an essayist, poet, and critic, provides an important introduction to this often neglected classic."--BOOK JACKET.