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The Wettest County in the World
The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story | Matt Bondurant
Based on the true story of Matt Bondurant'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. Forrest, the eldest brother, is fierce, mythically indestructible, and the consummate businessman; Howard, the middle brother, is an ox of a man besieged by the horrors he witnessed in the Great War; 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. White mule, white lightning, firewater, popskull, wild cat, stump whiskey, or rotgut -- 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 "wettest county in the world." 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 "The Great Franklin County Moonshine Conspiracy," and break 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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#ReadingResolutions #brothers @Jess7
Haven't read the tagged book book saw Lawless🎥 which is based on the book

KathyWheeler I haven‘t read the book either but I liked the movie. 6y
sudi I remember watching this just because of Tom Hardy 🙈 6y
GripLitGrl @sudi Tom Hardy😍 6y
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Macnjen
Panpan

I really didn‘t like the writing style.

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Teafiend
Mehso-so

I generally liked it. A bit slow in some areas Interesting read about an interesting time in an interesting part of the US

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Teafiend
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I can‘t help but hear Tom Hardy‘s voice! “We control the fear...Without that fear, we are all as good as dead.”

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