The Wettest County in the World : Based on a True Story : a Novel
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Read by Erik Steele.
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.
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Good, Repetitive
submitted by Sara W on July 1, 2011, 3:17pm
The story was pretty good, but definitely repetitive. It's most noticeable in the number of times the protagonist ends up drinking moonshine in the parking lot outside the Dunkerd church, or his brother flips the lid of his mason jar across the field before getting impressively intoxicated.
It came together quite beautifully at the end with the connection to present day and the presence of the artifacts on the wall. Any parts I found tedious along the way were pretty well validated by the conclusion of the story.
PUBLISHED
North Kingstown, R.I. : BBC Audiobooks America, p2008.
Year Published: 2008
Description: 9 sound discs (10 hr., 36 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: Book on CD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780792756477
0792756479
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Steele, Erik.
SUBJECTS
Distilling, Illicit -- Fiction.
Prohibition -- Fiction.
Brothers -- Fiction.
Virginia -- Fiction.
Suspense fiction.