Matt Bondurant
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When Vermonters Fred and Elly Bulkington win a pub in a contest, they travel to a small town on the southern coast of Ireland and encounter a wild, strange land - and the native resistance to strangers. As Fred immerses himself in the life of a pub-owner, Elly takes the ferry to a nearby island where she devotes herself to open-water swimming, pushing herself to the limit, and crossing unseen boundaries that drive her into the heart of the island's...
3) Lawless
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The true story of the infamous Bondurant brothers: bootlegging siblings who made a run for the American Dream in Prohibition-era Virginia. In this epic outlaw tale, inspired by true-life tales of author Matt Bondurant's family in his novel The Wettest County in the World, the loyalty of three brothers is put to the test against the backdrop of the nation's most notorious crime wave.
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
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.