BOOTH
- By: Karen Joy Fowler
- Categories Books , Adults & General Classification , Historical Fiction
- Stock Availability: In Stock
- ISBN: 9781788168632
- Total Pages: 480
- Available Book Formats: Hardcover
- Year: 2022
Price:
JOD 21.00
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 mesmerizing 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 dreams they must fight to realize - 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.