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    Title
    Lawless
    Subtitle
    A Novel Based on a True Story
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) Matt Bondurant
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 315
    Width: 137 mm
    Height: 213 mm
    Thickness: 20 mm
    Weight: 295 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9781451658941
    ISBN 10: 145165894X
    Classifications
    BISAC category code: FIC014000
    BISAC category code: FIC030000
    Dewey: 813/.6
    BISAC category code: FIC019000
    Dewey: FIC
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: F2.3
    Dewey: 813.6
    BICMainSubject: FA
    Edition statement
    Reprint
    Publisher
    Scribner Book Company
    Imprint name
    Scribner Book Company
    Publication date
    11 September 2012
    Publication City/Country
    US
    Main description
    With a Foreword by Director John Hillcoat 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.
    Review quote
    "Bondurant is a nimble writer...[His] prose is lyrical when the whiskey floods in, but also when the blood flows out." -The New York Times Book Review