Lawless: Originally Published as the Wettest County in the World

Bondurant, Matt

ISBN 10: 1609984889 ISBN 13: 9781609984885

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2012

Synopsis

Based on the true story of his grandfather and two granduncles, Matt Bondurant’s novel is a gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder. The Bondurant Boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through Franklin County during Prohibition and after. The brothers played a central role in a major conspiracy trial and its violent end. In 1935, Sherwood Anderson, working on a magazine story, finds himself driving along the dusty red roads trying to find the brothers and break the silence that shrouds Franklin County. In vivid, muscular prose, Matt Bondurant brings these men—their dark deeds, their long silences, their deep desires—to life. His understanding of the passion, violence, and desperation at the center of this world is both heartbreaking and magnificent. Soon to be a major mation picture!

About this title

Book Description

Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Gary Oldman, Mia Wasikowska, Guy Pearce and Jessica Chastain

About the Author

Matt Bondurant was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia. His first novel, The Third Translation, is an international bestseller, published in fifteen countries. He currently lives and writes in northern New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1609984889
• ISBN 13: 9781609984885
• Binding: Audio CD
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 9