{"product_id":"yellow-jack-9780393321104","title":"Yellow Jack","description":"Hailed by reviewers as an electrifying debut (\u003cem\u003eBaltimore Sun\u003c\/em\u003e) and perhaps the best evocation of New Orleans ever to appear in print (\u003cem\u003eRichmond Times-Dispatch\u003c\/em\u003e), \u003cem\u003eYellow Jack\u003c\/em\u003e 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 (\u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e). \u003cem\u003eYellow Jack\u003c\/em\u003e is a ribald, picaresque trip through an 1840s New Orleans saturated with sex, drugs, death, and corruption. In this luminously haunting (\u003cem\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e) 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.--\u003cem\u003eNashville Scene\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Josh Russell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.72lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.55h x 5.57w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393321104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/03\/2000 pg. 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRussell, Josh:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eJosh Russell\u003c\/strong\u003e is professor of English at Georgia State University and co-director of the Creative Writing Program. A recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Prose, he is the author of three novels.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40377951158387,"sku":"9.78039E+12","price":26.51,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_330c8879-0fed-4d69-ade6-f64d853fd8d6.jpg?v=1661262693","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/yellow-jack-9780393321104","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}