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Booth : a novel / Karen Joy Fowler.

Fowler, Karen Joy, (author.).

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593331439
  • ISBN: 0593331435
  • ISBN: 9780593331453
  • Physical Description: 470 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2022].
Subject: Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865 > Family > Fiction.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 > Assassination > Fiction.
Booth family > Fiction.
Shakespearean actors and actresses > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
United States > Politics and government > 19th century > Fiction.
Genre: Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 72 of 75 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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Sneads Ferry Branch Library FIC FOWLER (Text) 36015001842851 Adult Fiction Available -

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520 . ‡aIn 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.
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