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Josh Russell Yellow Jack: A Novel
W W Norton & Co Inc 1999 0393047687 / 9780393047684 Hardcover Like New
"clean, tight, unmarked, some light cover edge handling,() With Yellow Jack --a ribald, picaresque trip through a dissolute 1840s New Orleans saturated with sex, drugs, death, and corruption --Southern literature has met in Josh Russell its own intoxicating hybrid of Caleb Carr, Flannery O'Connor, and Vladimir Nabokov. The magic art of photography has been invented in the studio of Louis Daguerre in Paris, and when his apprentice (under the alias Claude Marchand) flees to New Orleans, his work with his master's stolen camera brings him instant fame. But for Marchand, success --especially with women --is a curse, hopelessly entangling him with both a voodoo-adept octoroon mistress and the erotically precocious daughter of a prominent New Orleans family. And as the city is ravaged each summer by yellow fever (yellow jack), Marchand's miraculous art is spent on memorial portraits of corpses. Mercury drives him mad, but his work will nevertheless make him immortal, after a fashion. An ID: mon0000097749"
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Josh Russell Yellow Jack: A Novel
W W Norton & Co Inc 1999 0393047687 / 9780393047684 Hardcover Very Good
"clean, tight, unmarked, with Good dust jacket. Dust jacket has a tear at the top of the spine by the back. Some edge rubbing and handling.() With Yellow Jack --a ribald, picaresque trip through a dissolute 1840s New Orleans saturated with sex, drugs, death, and corruption --Southern literature has met in Josh Russell its own intoxicating hybrid of Caleb Carr, Flannery O'Connor, and Vladimir Nabokov. The magic art of photography has been invented in the studio of Louis Daguerre in Paris, and when his apprentice (under the alias Claude Marchand) flees to New Orleans, his work with his master's stolen camera brings him instant fame. But for Marchand, success --especially with women --is a curse, hopelessly entangling him with both a voodoo-adept octoroon mistress and the erotically precocious daughter of a prominent New Orleans family. And as the city is ravaged each summer by yellow fever (yellow jack), Marchand's miraculous art is spent on memorial portraits of corpses. Mercury dri ID: mon0000097770"
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