{"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\u003cbr\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.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50324006437138,"sku":"9780393321104","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cb927a36-da4a-493b-a01a-71c827bf808d.jpg?v=1727664193","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/yellow-jack-9780393321104","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}