Booth

Fowler, Karen Joy

ISBN 10: 0593331435 / ISBN 13: 9780593331439

Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 2022

About this Item

First Edition/First Printing. This copy of "Booth" has been SIGNED by Karen Joy Fowler on the title page. This from her appearance at the National Book Festival in Washington D.C. on September 3, 2022. Longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize.

Seller Inventory # 009588

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Booth
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593331435
• ISBN 13: 9780593331439
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • *NEW ARRIVALS
  • Modern First Editions

About this title

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.

About the Author

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.