Author

Publication

1999 - Prometheus Books, Amherst, N.Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

82,250 words, Guess

Page Count

329 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing28165

Classifications

  • DDC813/.52
  • LCCPS3523.O46 S8 1999

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.

Subjects

Genres

  • Fiction.

Series Statement

  • Literary classics

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