Lawless
Matt Bondurant
“Hot blood smoked in the calcified winter air. Jack crouched on the ground like a muddy toad, cradling the rife and watching the stream of crimson like liquid fire”
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Now a major motion picture starring Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Gary Oldman, Mia Wasikowska, Guy Pearce and Jessica Chastain
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.
“Thick with the kind of blood-soaked descriptions that would do Cormac McCarthy proud.”
wall Street Journal
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“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.”
esquire
“Engrossing.”
entertainment Weekly
“This is a lyrical and riveting book … It’s a book that hurts like life.”
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Matt Bondurant
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.
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