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Author/Contributor(s): |
Russell, Josh
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Publisher: |
W. W. Norton & Company
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Date: |
09/01/2000
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Binding: |
Paperback
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Condition: |
NEW
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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, 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
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