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Yellow Jack: A Novel by Russell, Josh is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Yellow Jack: A Novel about?
"[An] erotic, disturbing novel . . . shimmers with intensity . . . irresistible." New Orleans Times-Picayune 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
Who reads Yellow Jack: A Novel?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Russell, Josh
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2000
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780393321104
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, History
- Rating
- 3.54 / 5 (309 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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