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Booth : a novel

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Description

470 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth"--
In 1822, a secret family moves into a secret cabin some thirty miles northeast of Baltimore, to farm, to hide, and to bear ten children over the course of the next sixteen years. Junius Booth--breadwinner, celebrated Shakespearean actor, and master of the house in more ways than one--is at once a mesmerizing talent and a man of terrifying instability. One by one the children arrive, as year by year, the country draws frighteningly closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war. As the tenor of the world shifts, the Booths emerge from their hidden lives to cement their place as one of the country's leading theatrical families. But behind the curtains of the many stages they have graced, multiple scandals, family triumphs, and criminal disasters begin to take their toll, and the solemn siblings of John Wilkes Booth are left to reckon with the truth behind the destructively specious promise of an early prophecy.

Subject

Genre/Form

Call Number

JFE 22-2884

ISBN

LCCN

2021048770

OCLC

1274023395

Author

Fowler, Karen Joy, author.

Title

Booth : a novel / Karen Joy Fowler.

Publisher

New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Other Form:

Online version: Fowler, Karen Joy. Booth New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2022] 9780593331446 (DLC) 2021048771

Research Call Number

JFE 22-2884