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(0)Matt Bondurant
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English
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Based on a true story
The hurricane of 1900, America's worst natural disaster, left the island city of Galveston in ruins. Thousands perished, including all ninety-three children at the Sisters of the Incarnate Word orphanage--except six-year-old Hester, who miraculously survived. Oleander City is the tale of this little girl and the volatile collision between the American Red Cross, the Ku Klux Klan, and one of the most famous boxing matches in...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Description
The Night Swimmer, Matt Bondurant's utterly riveting modern gothic novel of marriage and belonging, confirms his gift for storytelling that transports and enthralls.
In a small town on the southern coast of Ireland, an isolated place only frequented by fishermen and the occasional group of bird-watchers, Fred and Elly Bulkington, newly arrived from Vermont having won a pub in a contest, encounter a wild, strange land shaped by the
...Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
Description
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...
4) Lawless
Publisher
Roadshow Entertainment [distributor]
Language
English
Description
"The three Bondurant boys, along with their sultry new hire, command the most lucrative bootlegging operation in Franklin County, Virginia. The locals consider them indestructable. But the law - in the form of a corrupt special deputy - wants a cut of their action, at any cost. When youngest brother Jack gets a taste of power with a deadly gangster the whole business blows sky high. Based on the astonishing true story, the Bondurant brotherhood is...
5) Lawless
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Language
English
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.