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Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story
by Bondurant, Matt
- Used
- Near Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1416561404
- ISBN 13
- 9781416561408
- Seller
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Monroe, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
unused book from closed bookstore inventory with a tiny bit of wear; clean, tight and square, text is clean and unmarked, no spine crease, no tears or other creases, pages are lightly yellowed, edges are slightly bumped
Synopsis
Based on the true story of Matt BondurantâÈçs 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, 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. 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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Details
- Bookseller
- Book Nook Monroe
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 502948
- Title
- Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story
- Author
- Bondurant, Matt
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- later printing
- ISBN 10
- 1416561404
- ISBN 13
- 9781416561408
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY, USA
- Date Published
- 2010
- Pages
- 312
- Size
- 8vo - over 7 3/4 - 9 3/4" tall
- Keywords
- fiction, historical fiction, bootlegging, revenge, moonshiners, Prohibition era, Virginia, conspiracy
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction - General; Fiction - Historical;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Book Nook Monroe
Biblio member since 2022
Monroe, Michigan
About Book Nook Monroe
We were a small independent new & used bookstore established in 1969 in historic downtown Monroe, Michigan. As of September 2021 we have closed the store to the the public and have transitioned to on-line selling only. We are diligently (most days) trying to add hundreds & hundreds of (so far ignored) books in two storage units along with the new books left in our inventory. This is gonna take awhile - stay tuned.
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