The Wettest County in the World (Lawless): A Novel Based on a True Story

Version: Unabridged
Author: Matt Bondurant
Narrator: Erik Steele
Genres: Suspense, Literature, Historical Fiction
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America
Published In: August 2012
# of Units: 9 CDs
Length: 10 hours, 36 minutes
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Overview

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.

Author Details

Author Details

Bondurant, Matt

Matt Bondurant was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia. He received a B.A. and an M.A. in English at James Madison University and a Ph.D. at Florida State University where he was a Kingsbury Fellow. His short fiction has appeared in journals such as "Glimmer Train", "Prairie Schooner", and "New England Review", among others. His first novel, "The Third Translation", was sold in fifteen countries. He currently lives and writes in northern New York.