Booth

Fowler, Karen Joy

ISBN 10: 0593331435 / ISBN 13: 9780593331439

Edité par G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2022

A propos de cet article

Two-toned boards. Signed by the author on a special tipped-in page at the front. An excellent copy but for some bumps to the spine ends. All else is about fine. The dust jacket has a few gentle creases to the upper spine end and upper, rear edge. Without any other wear. Not price clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Booth
• Éditeur: G. P. Putnam's Sons
• Date de parution: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0593331435
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780593331439
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition; First Printing.
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Signé: Signé par l'auteur

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

Karen Joy Fowler is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, including The Jane Austen Book Club and We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, which was the winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award and shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She lives in Santa Cruz, California.