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Booth
Karen Joy Fowler
- Profile (Faber)
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Publisher | Profile (Faber) |
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ISBN | 9781788169677 |
Publication date | March 2022 |
Edition | Trade Pb |
Dimensions | mm |
Pages | 480 |
Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
extra information | Longlisted for the Man Booker 2022 |
Description
From the Booker-shortlisted, million-copy bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the infamous, ill-fated Booth family. Charmers, liars, drinkers and dreamers, they will change history forever.
Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor who fled bigamy charges in England, both a mesmerising talent and a man of terrifying instability. As his children grow up in a remote farmstead in 1830s rural Baltimore, the country draws ever closer to the boiling point of secession and civil war. Of the six Booth siblings who survive to adulthood, each has their own dreams they must fight to realise - but it is Johnny who makes the terrible decision that will change the course of history - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Booth is a riveting novel focused on the very things that bind, and break, a family.