Booth by Karen Joy Fowler

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Booth by Karen Joy Fowler

$13.75
ISBN:
9781788168649
Author:
Karen Joy Fowler
Publisher:
Profile Books Ltd
Publication Date:
2023
Format:
Paperback

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022 In 1822, a stage is set: Englishman Junius Booth - celebrated Shakespearean actor and man of mesmerising charm an…

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Booth by Karen Joy Fowler

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LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022

In 1822, a stage is set: Englishman Junius Booth - celebrated Shakespearean actor and man of mesmerising charm and instability - moves to a remote cabin outside Baltimore with his wife, who bears him ten children. Of the six who survive infancy, one is John Wilkes - the hot-tempered but much-loved middle son who, in 1865, fatally shoots Abraham Lincoln in a Washington theatre, changing the course of history. What makes a murderer? His family or the world? And how can those who love him ever come to terms with his actions? Strikingly relevant to the world today, Booth is the story of one extraordinary family and the terrible act that shattered their bonds forever.

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