Booth

SKU: 9781788169677
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Booth

SKU: 9781788169677
Author: Karen Joy Fowler
C-Format·Ages 18+·Historical Fiction
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At a glance

🕯️ Historical Tone
Richly detailed, thoughtful, haunting, emotionally layered
⚡ Pace
Expansive, character-driven, reflective
🇺🇸 Vibes
Antebellum America, theatrical families, political unrest, generational tension
👑 Themes
Family loyalty, ambition, identity, violence, the shaping of history
🧠 Emotional Journey
Complex family dynamics, moral conflict, emotional unraveling
🔥 Hook
Centered on the infamous Booth family before the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the novel explores ambition, love, and the personal fractures that unfold against a nation on the brink of war
👀 Perfect For
Fans of literary historical fiction and richly layered family sagas

Best Book of the Year Real Simple • AARP • USA Today • NPR • Virginia Living Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize 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.

Book details

Format
C-Format
Reading age
18+
Pages
480
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Published
5 April 2012
Language
English
ISBN
9781788169677

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