The Wettest County in the World : A Novel Based on a True Story Paperback - 2009
by Bondurant, Matt
- Used
Bondurant weaves a compelling tale of violence, desperation, and greed, as three brothers run moonshine in Virginia during prohibition, in this story that is based on a true story about the author's grandfather and two uncles.
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- Title The Wettest County in the World : A Novel Based on a True Story
- Author Bondurant, Matt
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribner, New York
- Date 2009-12-29
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- Bookseller's Inventory # 8351129-6
- ISBN 9781416561408 / 1416561404
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.8 in (21.08 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: South Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: Virginia
- Library of Congress subjects Virginia, Suspense fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
White mule, white lightning, firewater, popskull, wild cat, stump whiskey, or rotgutâÈ'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 âÈêwettest county in the world.âÈë 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 âÈêThe Great Franklin County Moonshine Conspiracy,âÈë and break open the silence that shrouds Franklin County.
In vivid, muscular prose, Matt Bondurant brings these menâÈ'their dark deeds, their long silences, their deep desiresâÈ'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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- New York Times Book Review, 02/07/2010, Page 24