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 energy and force, brilliantly marching between the netherworlds of brutality and beauty."
This Modern Library Paperback Classic is set from the text of the first American edition, published in 1915.
| ISBN: | 9780812970043 |
| Publication date: | 11th November 2003 |
| Author: | Jack London |
| Publisher: | Modern Library an imprint of Random House Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 261 pages |
| Series: | Modern Library Classics |
| Genres: |
Classic fiction: general and literary Psychological thriller Narrative theme: Interior life General Fiction |
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.
The Star Rover features in the following genres: Classic fiction: general and literary, Psychological thriller, Narrative theme: Interior life, General Fiction
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The Star Rover was written by Jack London and published by Modern Library an imprint of Random House Publishing Group
The Star Rover has 261 pages
Yes it is part of Modern Library Classics series