Bibliograph

Booth, Karen Joy Fowler

Type

Label

Booth, Karen Joy Fowler

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Booth

Responsibility statement

Karen Joy Fowler

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

Target audience

adult

Classification