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Booth : a novel / Karen Joy Fowler.

Fowler, Karen Joy, (author.).

Summary:
"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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780593331439
  • ISBN: 0593331435
  • Physical Description: 470 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York, NY : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2022]
Subject: Booth, John Wilkes, 1838-1865 > Family > Fiction.
Booth family > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Genre: Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 53 of 56 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 4 current holds with 56 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Albright Memorial Library FICTION FOWLER (Text)
Bookplate: In Memory of William R. and Natalie Henkelman
50686016142643 Adult Fiction Available -
Altoona Area Public Library F FOW (Text) 33240004962687 Adult Fiction Available -
Annie Halenbake Ross Library F Fow (Text)
Honor: In honor of Grant and Jeanne Miller by All Your Employees, Central PA Auto Auction
00152733 ADULT Fiction Available -
Cambria County Library FICTION Fow (Text) 85131001812651 CACM Fiction Available -
Carbondale Public Library FICTION FOWLER (Text) 50688010811314 Adult Fiction Available -
Collinsville Community Library Adults FOW Fiction (Text) 34259000552218 Adult Area Available -
Coplay Public Library FIC FOW (Text) 31961000271268 New Arrivals-Adult Fiction Available -
Degenstein Community Library FIC FOWLER (Text) 35031301211890 Adult Fiction Available -
Dillsburg Area Public Library Adults FOW Fiction (Text) 34001001411337 Adult Area Available -
Dover Area Community Library Adults FOW Fiction (Text) 34217000908988 Adult Area Available -


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