BOOTH

SIX BROTHERS AND SISTERS. ONE INJUSTICE THAT WILL SHATTER THEIR BOND 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 an epic and riveting novel focused on the very things that bind, and break, a family.

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Booth is a triumph! No one writes like Karen Joy Fowler. With wit, heart, and revelatory insight, she teases ghosts from their shadows, transforming the way we see the past, shedding new light on our troubled present. Ruth Ozeki

Product details

• Authors: Karen Joy Fowler, Fowler Karen Joy, Karen Joy Fowler
• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2022
• EAN: 9781788168649
• ISBN: 978-1-78816-864-9
• No. of pages: 482
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 29 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, Fiction & related items, Historical fiction, FICTION / Literary, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / General, Modern and contemporary fiction, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas)