Matt Bondurant

Lawless (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel Based on a True Story

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

With a Foreword by Director John Hillcoat

Based on the true story of Matt Bondurant's grandfather and two granduncles, Lawless 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, Virginia, during Prohibition and in the years after. When Sherwood Anderson, the journalist and author of Winesburg, Ohio, was covering a story there, he christened it the wettest county in the world. Anderson finds himself driving along dusty red roads, piecing together the clues linking the brothers to The Great Franklin County Moonshine Conspiracy, and breaking open the silence that shrouds Franklin County. In vivid, muscular prose, Matt Bondurant brings these mentheir dark deeds, their long silences, their deep desiresto life. His understanding of the passion, violence, and desperation at the center of this world is both heartbreaking and magnificent.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781451699708
• Artikelnr.: 38094485

Autorenporträt

Matt Bondurant's novel Lawless, originally published as The Wettest County in the World (Scribner 2008), was a New York Times Editor's Pick, and San Francisco Chronicle Best 50 Books of the Year. A former John Gardner Fellow in Fiction at Bread Loaf, Kingsbury Fellow at Florida State, and Walter E. Dakin Fellow at Sewanee, Matt's short fiction has been published in journals such as Prairie Schooner, The New England Review, and Glimmer Train, and he has held residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. mattbondurant.com

Rezensionen

Thick with the kind of blood-soaked descriptions that would do Cormac McCarthy proud. Wall Street Journal