Lawless

Matt Bondurant

Aug 2012 · Canongate Books

About this ebook

Based on the true account of Matt Bondurant's grandfather and two granduncles, Lawless is a gripping, white-knuckle fable of bootlegging, brotherhood and revenge. White mule, white lightning, firewater, popskull, wild cat, stump whiskey, rotgut - whatever you called it, 1920s Virginia was awash with moonshine. The Bondurant Boys were notorious gangsters who ran liquor though Franklin County during Prohibition and in the years that followed. Lawless is their story.

Ratings and reviews

Loved this book I read it before seeing the film..... such s great read.... would say it introduces alot a characters early on which gets a little confusing but once you get into the book you cant stop I found myself slowing down near the end just so I didnt have to finish it

Not a bad read, but certainly not fantastic. The two perspectives felt somewhat disconnected and it lacked detail for events that could have been drawn out more for the reader.

Downloaded this after seeing the movie! I'm a few chapters in... Really enjoying it...great to read:)

About the author

Matt Bondurant's novel Lawless, originally published as The Wettest County in the World (Scribner 2008), was a New York Times Editor's Pick, and San Francisco Chronicle Best 50 Books of the Year. A former John Gardner Fellow in Fiction at Bread Loaf, Kingsbury Fellow at Florida State, and Walter E. Dakin Fellow at Sewanee, Matt's short fiction has been published in journals such as Prairie Schooner, The New England Review, and Glimmer Train, and he has recently held residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. He currently lives in Texas. mattbondurant.com