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ABOUT THIS BOOK

PUBLISHER: Canongate Books

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9780857867285

RRP: £7.99

PAGES: 336

PUBLICATION DATE:
August 16, 2012

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Lawless

Matt Bondurant

The Bondurant Boys were notorious gangster brothers who ran liquor though Franklin County during Prohibition. LAWLESS is their story. Based on the true account of Matt Bondurant’s grandfather and two granduncles, this is a gripping tale of bootlegging, brotherhood and revenge.

Reviews of Lawless

Thick with the kind of blood-soaked descriptions that would do Cormac McCarthy proud. – Wall Street Journal

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Matt Bondurant

Matt Bondurant’s novel 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.