num_pages: 250
description: Set in New Orleans during the 1840s, a novel of erotic adventure and human corruption follows an apprentice of Louis Daguerre from the studio of his mentor, where he has just participated in inventing photography, to America, where he uses the new art to photograph the victims of Yellow Fever.
language: English
title: Yellow Jack: A Novel
titlecomplete: Yellow Jack: A Novel
genres: Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Photography, Historical Mystery, Historical, Novels
ratings_count: 406
places: New Orleans, Louisiana
publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc