Lawless Based on a True Story by Matt Bondurant Paperback Book

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Rent Lawless Based on a True Story

Author: Matt Bondurant

Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD

Publisher: Scribner Book Company

Published: Jan 2010

Genre: Fiction - Historical - General

Retail Price: $20.99

Pages: 320

Synopsis

A gritty, gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder, this "engrossing" (Entertainment Weekly) novel is now a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain, Tom Hardy, Shia Labeouf, Gary Oldman, Guy Pearce, and Mia Wasikowska.

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 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.

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BookLender review by trekfann on 2023-03-03 03:25:41

This book doesn't use quotes around dialog, which makes no sense. And the story is not as interesting as if seems from the description.