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  1. ISBN. 1-4165-6139-0 (hardback edition) The Wettest County in the World is a 2008 historical novel by Matt Bondurant, an American writer who features his grandfather Jack and grand-uncles Forrest and Howard as the main characters in the novel. The book tells of the trio during the Depression and Prohibition in rural Virginia, who made a living ...

    • October 14, 2008
    • Scribner
  2. Bondurant in 1931. James Forrest Bondurant was born in Franklin County, Virginia, Virginia on 21 November 1901, the son of Granville Thomas Bondurant and Malissa Elizabeth Barbour, the younger brother of Howard Bondurant, and the older brother of Jack Bondurant.

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  4. Apr 2, 2021 · The characters of Jack, Forrest, and Howard Bondurant are based on the real relatives of the author of the novel, Matt Bondurant. The former is based on his paternal grandfather, while the latter two characters are modeled after his grand-uncles.

  5. In 1931, the Bondurant brothers — middle brother Forrest, eldest brother Howard, and youngest brother Jack — are running a successful moonshine business in Franklin County, Virginia. The brothers use their gas station and restaurant as a front for dealing with the assistance of Cricket, Jack's mechanically gifted friend who builds and ...

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  6. Aug 27, 2012 · The Real Story Behind 'Lawless' by Matt Bondurant Published Aug 27, 2012 at 1:00 AM EDT Updated Aug 26, 2012 at 10:56 PM EDT Shia LaBeouf plays Jack Bondurant in Lawless (in theaters Aug. 29); the ...

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  7. With Rakes and his men dead, the Bondurant Brothers decide to save their money and retire after Prohibition ends. Jack marries Bertha, Forrest marries Maggie, and Howard marries a local woman, all having children. During a reunion at Jack's house, Forrest drunkly dances on a frozen lake and falls into the freezing water, dying of pneumonia a ...

  8. Jan 1, 2008 · Matt Bondurant's "The Wettest County in the World" (aka "Lawless" in the July 2012 movie tie-in reprint edition) is a history-based fictional novel about the lives of the author's own grandfather Jack and his great-uncles Howard and Forrest Bondurant. It relates how the Bondurant brothers ran a bootleg liquor operation (which is called ...

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