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Matt Bondurant

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Matt Bondurant was born and raised in Alexandria, Virginia, and attended James Madison University where he received a B.A. and M.A., and received his PhD from Florida State University, where he was a Kingsbury Fellow. Aside from Writing, Matt worked for the Associated Press National Broadcast näytä lisää Office in Washington DC, an NPR station in Virginia as an on-air announcer and producer, and as a Steward at the British Museum in London, England. He currently teaches literature and writing at University of Texas at Dallas and lives in Dallas. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän

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Dallas Noir (2013) — Avustaja — 41 kappaletta
Best Food Writing 2017 (2017) — Avustaja — 33 kappaletta

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Excellent book , colourful characters from virginia Appalachians, bootleggers, embryonic NASCAR drivers skeedattling from the police.. heroes and antihero.
 
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Brumby18 | 11 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Feb 25, 2024 |
 
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Becky_From_Kansas | 11 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Jan 8, 2024 |
Amazing story, but an even more amazing movie, "Lawless", based on this book, starring Shia LaBeouf as Jack Bondurant, the author's grandfather. It is a must-see movie!

Love how the author wove in fiction with true accounts and true (and fictional) characters. He sets the record straight in the " Afterwards" section. My only complaint is I wish he would have added the photos that was talked about into the book. I would love to see what the Bondurant boys really looked like.
 
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MissysBookshelf | 11 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Aug 27, 2023 |
I'm not rating this 1 star because Matt Bondurant is a bad writer. He's not. And I like that he wrote a novel based on the lives of his grandfather, two great-uncles and the family stories about them, as well as the local legends about their indestructibility, especially that of Forrest Bondurant. I picked this up on audio because I knew this was based on a true story that I found intriguing.

The reason I'm giving it 1 star is because I hated pretty much every minute of my work commute while I listened to this. It's sheer misery from start to finish, with no real bright points in the mundane, depressing, violent lives of the protagonists.

The focus is mostly on Jack Bondurant, the author's grandfather in real life, and as portrayed in the novel, the least interesting of the brothers. For a portrayal of his grandfather, it was decidedly unsentimental, even negative. I certainly didn't like him. I wish there had been more focus on Forrest. I suppose the author wanted to keep him mysterious, as maybe he was in life. I don't know, but his portions of the story were more interesting to me than any others. Keeping the focus on Jack was unconventional, which was maybe what the author was going for, but it didn't make for enjoyable reading (or listening, in my case).

I know a lot of people hated the jumps forward in time, where Sherwood Anderson was trying to track down a story on a famous female moonshiner and stumbled on the Bondurant story. I actually didn't mind these breaks. The author seems to be fascinated by Sherwood Anderson, and I wonder if I would understand why he wrote the book the way he did if I were well-versed in the writing of Sherwood Anderson. I suspect I would.

In the end, there was no romance, heroism or adventure in this story about a legendary trio of brothers who were moonshiners during Prohibition. I'm sure that was intentional, but darn it, it wasn't very fun.
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Harks | 11 muuta kirja-arvostelua | Dec 17, 2022 |

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