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Author:

Fowler, Karen Joy, author.

Title:

Booth : a novel / Karen Joy Fowler.

Edition:

First large print edition.

Publisher:

Random House Large Print,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

639 pages (large print) ; 24 cm

Subject:

Booth, John Wilkes,--1838-1865--Family--Fiction.
Booth family--Fiction.
Booth, John Wilkes,--1838-1865--Fiction.
Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865--Assassination--Fiction.
United States--History--1783-1865--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Large type books.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

Summary:

"From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic and intimate 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. Booth is a startling portrait of a country in the throes of change and a vivid exploration of the ties that make, and break, a family."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0593556496
9780593556498

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1302876650

LCCN:

bl2022009364

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