The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story [Audiobook] download free by Matt Bondurant
- Listen audiobook: The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story
- Author: Matt Bondurant
- Release date: 2009/12/28
- Publisher: SIMON & SCHUSTER
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Crime and Thriller
- ISBN: 9781416561408
- Rating: 7.78 of 10
- Votes: 786
- Review by: Rodney Stoddard
- Review rating: 7.12 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/14
- Duration: 3H50M30S in 256 kbps (62.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-14
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, WMA, MP3, MPEG4, AIFF, MPEG-4 ALS, FLAC, ATRAC (compression CAB, ZIP, RAR, AZW4, CBC)
- Total pages original book: 312
- Includes a PDF summary of 27 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 20M2S (5.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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. 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 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.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Thriller Books, Contemporary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Thrillers, Historical Crime
- Download servers: Uploaded, BitShare, Torrent, Hotfile, Torlock, 1fichier, MEGA, Dropbox. Compressed in CAB, ZIP, RAR, AZW4, CBC
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 15.52 USD
- Dimensions: 139.7x210.82x20.32mm
- Weight: 226.8g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, NY, United States
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