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Yellow Jack

by Josh Russell

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Hailed by reviewers as an electrifying debut (Baltimore Sun) and perhaps the best evocation of New Orleans ever to appear in print (Richmond Times-Dispatch), Yellow Jack has given Southern literature its own intoxicating hybrid of Caleb Carr, Flannery O'Connor, and Vladimir Nabokov. Russell's virtuoso storytelling, evocative prose and original conception mark [his first book] as a significant work that we can only hope will be followed by many more (Chicago Tribune).

Yellow Jack is a ribald, picaresque trip through an 1840s New Orleans saturated with sex, drugs, death, and corruption. In this luminously haunting (Entertainment Weekly) portrait of decadence, daguer-rotypist Claude Marchand becomes hopelessly entangled with both a voodoo-adept octoroon mistress and the erotically precocious daughter of a prominent New Orleans family.

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ISBN:
9780393047684
Author:
Russell, Josh
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Historical
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
New orleans
Subject:
Historical fiction
Publication Date:
August 1999
Binding:
Trade Cloth
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
250
Dimensions:
8.55x5.82x1.17 in. 1.00 lbs.
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