Millions of readers around the world are coming to the guardian in. The bondurant boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through franklin county during prohibition and after. The bondurant boys were a notorious gang of roughnecks and moonshiners who ran liquor through franklin county, virginia, during prohibition and in the years after. Matt bondurant uses the history of his own family to tell the story of moonshining during the 20s and 30s in his book the wettest county in the world. Matt bondurant is the author of three novels, the most recent of which is the night swimmer. The digital consumer book barometer 2019 explores sales trends in ebooks and digital audiobooks in canada, germany, italy, the. In the february 2017 author earnings report data guy estimated selfpublished ebooks to total 34% of the us ebook market. A novel based on a true story kindle edition by bondurant, matt. Based on the true story of his grandfather and two granduncles, matt bondurants novel is a gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder.
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Lawlesspreviously published as the wettest county in the world was a new york times editors choice, and one of the san francisco chronicles 50 best books of the year. Based on the true story of matt bondurants grandfather and two granduncles, the wettest county in the world is a gripping tale of brotherhood, greed, and murder. The 25th new delhi world book fair was organised between. But the latest figures show a dramatic reversal of fortunes, with sales of. Consumer market digital market mobility market country outlook. Bondurant does an excellent job painting a picture of the hardscrabble lives of people in virginias franklin county. Revenue is expected to show an annual growth rate cagr 20202024 of 4. When sherwood anderson, the journalist and author of winesburg, ohio, was covering a story there, he christened it the wettest county in the world. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the wettest county in the world. His first novel, the third translation, was an international bestseller, translated into fourteen languages worldwide.
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