Yellow jack
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Word Count
62,500 words, Guess
Page Count
250 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL36137M
- ISBN-100393047687
- OCLC Control Number40869800
- OCLC Control Numberyellowjack00russ
- Library of Congress Control Number99021657
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- Goodreads1241404
- LibraryThing148294
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3568.U76677 Y4 1999
Description
"Yellow Jack is a ribald, picaresque trip through an 1840s New Orleans saturated with sex, drugs, death, and corruption. It is the story of Claude Marchand, an apprentice to Louis Daguerre, who discovers the magic art of photography when he hides a broken thermometer in a cabinet and finds that the mercury fumes bring out images etched by the sun in metal plates. After a falling-out with Daguerre, Marchand flees from Paris to New Orleans where he becomes the first daguerreotypist in America and he gets hopelessly entangled with both a voodoo-adept octoroon mistress and the erotically precocious daughter of a prominent New Orleans family. As the city is ravaged each summer by yellow fever (yellow jack), Marchand's miraculous art is tested by death, politics, and jealousy. Mercury drives him mad, but his work will nevertheless make him immortal, after a fashion."--BOOK JACKET.
First Sentence
IT IS A MYSTERY why those chronicling the history of photography have chosen to ignore Claude Marchand.
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