Lawless
- 16 Aug 2012
- 9780857867285
- £10.99
- 336 pp
- 129×198mm
- 16 Aug 2012
- 9780857867292
- £8.79
- 336 pp
In a few words
Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Gary Oldman, Mia Wasikowska, Guy Pearce and Jessica Chastain
In a few words
Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Gary Oldman and Jessica Chastain
Thick with the kind of blood-soaked descriptions that would do Cormac McCarthy proud.
There is blood. There is whiskey. There is the scent of gunpowder and gasoline hanging above the space through which the Bondurants pass, unrepentant, robed in their own greed. It's a dark, flinty reimagination of what a memoir - and your grandfather's stories - can be.
Thick with the kind of blood-soaked descriptions that would do Cormac McCarthy proud.
There is blood. There is whiskey. There is the scent of gunpowder and gasoline hanging above the space through which the Bondurants pass, unrepentant, robed in their own greed. It's a dark, flinty reimagination of what a memoir - and your grandfather's stories - can be.
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the book
The Bondurant Boys were notorious gangster brothers who ran liquor though Franklin County during Prohibition. LAWLESS is their story.
Based on the true account of Matt Bondurant’s grandfather and two granduncles, this is a gripping tale of bootlegging, brotherhood and revenge.
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Based on the true account of Matt Bondurant’s grandfather and two granduncles, The Wettest County is a gripping, white-knuckle fable of bootlegging, brotherhood and revenge.
White mule, white lightning, firewater, popskull, wild cat, stump whiskey, rotgut – whatever you called it, 1920s Virginia was awash with moonshine. The Bondurant Boys were notorious gangsters who ran liquor though Franklin County during Prohibition and in the years that followed. The Wettest County is their story.
Engrossing.
This is a lyrical and riveting book . . . It's a book that hurts like life.
Engrossing.
This is a lyrical and riveting book . . . It's a book that hurts like life.
Matt Bondurant
View profileMatt 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
Matt Bondurant
View profileMatt 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 recently held residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. He currently lives in Texas.
mattbondurant.com
