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Title Statement | Booth: a novel / Karen Joy Fowler. |
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Author | Fowler, Karen Joy |
Publication | ©2022New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons,[2022] |
Extent of Item | 470 pages ; |
ISBN | 9780593331439 0593331435 |
Other Number | 4286797 |
Summary | In 1822, a secret family moves into a 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. |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Actors and actresses--Fiction |
Family secrets--Fiction | |
Families--Fiction | |
By Name | Lincoln, Abraham,1809-1865--Assassination |
Booth, John Wilkes,1838-1865 | |
By Location | United States--Fiction--History--1783-1865 |
Baltimore (Md.)--Fiction | |
By Genre | Biographical fiction |
Historical fiction |