Yellow Jack - A Novel (Paperback, New Ed)

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, daguerrotypist Claude Marchand becomes hopelessly entangled with both a voodoo-adept octoroon mistress and the erotically precocious daughter of a prominent New Orleans family. "Russell has distilled the New Orleans of the mid-1800s, the terrible fever of the title, and the savage lives of the characters into a novel of terrible beauty." Nashville Scene"

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2000
First published:	September 2000
Authors:	Josh Russell
Dimensions:	208 x 140 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	258
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-32110-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-393-32110-X
Barcode:	9780393321104

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