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.
| ISBN | 9781978008175 |
| Autor(a) | Mybook |
| Editora | Createspace |
| Ano de edição | 2017 |
| Páginas | 418 |
| Acabamento | Brochura |
| Dimensões | 22,90 X 15,20 |