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Booth

Af: Karen Joy Fowler Engelsk Paperback

Booth

Af: Karen Joy Fowler Engelsk Paperback
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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.
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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.
Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 474
ISBN-13: 9780593331453
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0593331451
Kategori: Forside
Udg. Dato: 7 feb 2023
Længde: 30mm
Bredde: 310mm
Højde: 139mm
Forlag: Penguin Group USA
Oplagsdato: 7 feb 2023
Forfatter(e): Karen Joy Fowler
Forfatter(e) Karen Joy Fowler


Kategori Forside


ISBN-13 9780593331453


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 474


Udgave


Længde 30mm


Bredde 310mm


Højde 139mm


Udg. Dato 7 feb 2023


Oplagsdato 7 feb 2023


Forlag Penguin Group USA

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