02688cam a2200493 i 4500 550235373 TxAuBib 20220307120000.0 211008s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021048770 9780593331439 hardcover 0593331435 hardcover (OCoLC)1274023395 TxAuBib rda Fowler, Karen Joy,. Booth : a novel / Karen Joy Fowler. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2022] ©2022. 470 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "From the Man Booker finalist and bestselling author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves comes an epic novel about the family behind one of the most infamous figures in American history: John Wilkes Booth"-- Provided by publisher. 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. 20220307. Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865 Family Fiction. Booth family Fiction. Booth family. Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865. Family secrets Fiction. Families Fiction. FICTION / Historical / Civil War Era. FICTION / Literary. FICTION / Biographical. Families. Biographical fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Novels. Fowler, Karen Joy., New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2022].