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

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

Based on the true story of Matt Bondurantâ€™s grandfather and two granduncles, The Wettest County in the World 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. Howard, the eldest brother, is an ox of a man besieged by the horrors he witnessed in the Great War; Forrest,Â the middle brother, is fierce, mythically indestructible, and the consummate businessman; and Jack, the youngest, has a taste for luxury and a dream to get out of Franklin. Driven and haunted, these men forge a business, fall in love, and struggle to stay afloat as they watch their family die, their father's business fail, and the world they know crumble beneath the Depression and drought.Â
Â Â Â Â White mule, white lightning, firewater, popskull, wild cat, stump whiskey, or rotgutâ€”whatever you called it, Franklin County was awash in moonshine in the 1920s. When Sherwood Anderson, the journalist and author of Winesburg, Ohio, was covering a story there, he christened it the â€œwettest county in the world.â€ In the twilight of his career, Anderson finds himself driving along dusty red roads trying to find the Bondurant brothers, piece together the clues linking them to â€œThe Great Franklin County Moonshine Conspiracy,â€ and break open the silence that shrouds Franklin County.Â
Â Â Â Â In vivid, muscular prose, Matt Bondurant brings these menâ€”their dark deeds, their long silences, their deep desiresâ€”to life. His understanding of the passion, violence, and desperation at the center of this world is both heartbreaking and magnificent.

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Country USA
Brand Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 632183
ReleaseDate 2009-12-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781416561408

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	632183
ReleaseDate	2009-12-29
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781416561408

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

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