Booth / Karen Joy Fowler.
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TextPublisher: London : Serpent's Tail, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Description: 470 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781788169677; 9781788168632Subject(s): Booth family -- Fiction | Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Assassination -- Fiction | Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865 -- Fiction | Assassins -- Fiction | Presidents -- Assassination -- Fiction | United States -- History -- 1783-1865 -- FictionGenre/Form: Historical fiction. | Biographical fiction.DDC classification: 813.6 Summary: Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor who fled bigamy charges in England, both a mesmerising 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 own dreams they must fight to realise - but it is Johnny who makes the terrible decision that will change the course of history - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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First published in the USA in 2022 by G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Randon House LLC.
Junius is the patriarch, a celebrated Shakespearean actor who fled bigamy charges in England, both a mesmerising 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 own dreams they must fight to realise - but it is Johnny who makes the terrible decision that will change the course of history - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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