Darrell Standing, a former professor of agronomy, writes from death row in San Quentin, where years of solitary confinement and torture in the canvas straitjacket teach him to leave his body. In those trances he relives earlier existences, among them a seventeenth-century English seaman cast up in Korea, while the prison and its brutality remain all too present.
London’s 1915 blend of prison exposé and visionary adventure, published in Britain as The Jacket. Download the free EPUB.