Originally Published as The Wettest County in the WorldBy Matt BondurantNarrated by Erik Steele
Length10h 34m
About this audiobook
Based on the true story of his grandfather and two granduncles, Matt Bondurant's novel 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 during Prohibition and after. The brothers played a central role in a major conspiracy trial and its violent end. In 1935, Sherwood Anderson, working on a magazine story, finds himself driving along the dusty red roads trying to find the brothers and break 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.
Matt Bondurant is the author of Oleander City, a historical novel about the Galveston Hurricane of 1900; The Night Swimmer, which was featured in The New York Times Book Review and Outside magazine; The Wettest County in the World, an international bestseller that was adapted into the feature film Lawless; and his first novel, The Third Translation, also an international bestseller, was translated into fourteen languages. Matt has published numerous short stories, poems, essays, and book reviews, as well as feature articles specializing in adventure and endurance sports. He currently lives in Oxford, Mississippi.View all by Matt Bondurant
