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A review by canaanmerchant
The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story by Matt Bondurant
4.0
One of the critics blurbs on the back described the prose as muscular. I can't really think of a better word for it.
The flaw of this book is that the timeline shifts but that doesn't create dramatic tension so much as confusion over where we are supposed to place the events that have already happened. We follow along with Sherwood Anderson as he tries to piece together what happened but since he's large ineffective at learning anything all it does it frustrates the reader and hurries them through his chapters. That was a part that could have used a little more fiction and less the imagined Anderson's insecurities about writing.
However the story is riveting and Bondurant has created a palpable world where you begin to know the brothers like they know the mountain tops and hollers of Franklin county.
An the book will make you thirsty for some whiskey as well.
The flaw of this book is that the timeline shifts but that doesn't create dramatic tension so much as confusion over where we are supposed to place the events that have already happened. We follow along with Sherwood Anderson as he tries to piece together what happened but since he's large ineffective at learning anything all it does it frustrates the reader and hurries them through his chapters. That was a part that could have used a little more fiction and less the imagined Anderson's insecurities about writing.
However the story is riveting and Bondurant has created a palpable world where you begin to know the brothers like they know the mountain tops and hollers of Franklin county.
An the book will make you thirsty for some whiskey as well.