BOOTH (eBook)

Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2022

Karen Joy Fowler (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
ProFile (Verlag)
978-1-78816-865-6 (ISBN)

Infos

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2022A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2022AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 OPEN BOOK 'Brilliantly recounts the story of the American theatrical dynasty that produced Lincoln's assassin' Sunday Times Book of the MonthIn 1822, a stage is set: Englishman Junius Booth - celebrated Shakespearean actor and man of mesmerising charm and instability - moves to a remote cabin outside Baltimore with his wife, who bears him ten children.Of the six who survive infancy, one is John Wilkes - the hot-tempered but much-loved middle son who, in 1865, fatally shoots Abraham Lincoln in a Washington theatre, changing the course of history. What makes a murderer? His family or the world? And how can those who love him ever come to terms with his actions? Strikingly relevant to the world today, Booth is the story of one extraordinary family and the terrible act that shattered their bonds forever.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.3.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Historische Kriminalromane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: Abraham Lincoln • American Civil War • american historical novel • asia booth clarke • Biographical Fiction • booker prize 2022 • books bestsellers 2022 • Bring Up the Bodies • family sagas • fictional History • fiction books bestsellers 2021 • Great American Novel • How Much of These Hills is Gold • John Wilkes Booth • Junius Brutus Booth • Lincoln assassination • Poisonwood Bible • reading group books 2022 • United States • Wolf Hall
• ISBN-10: 1-78816-865-8 / 1788168658
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78816-865-6 / 9781788168656