Among The Thugs

AvBill Buford

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Engelska, 2011

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___________________________THE BESTSELLING ACCOUNT OF FOOTBALL VIOLENCEWelcome to the world of football thuggery. They have names like Bonehead, Paraffin Pete and Steamin’ Sammy. They like lager, football, the Queen, and themselves. They love England. They dislike the rest of the known universe. The beautiful game remains ugly. From following Manchster's Red Army to drinking with skinheads, acclaimed writer Bill Buford enters this alternate society and records both its savageries and its sinister allure with the social imagination of George Orwell and the raw personal engagement of Hunter S. Thompson. Among the Thugs is a terrifying, malevolently funny, supremely chilling book about the experience, and the eerie allure, of crowd violence and football culture.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-01-25
Språk:Engelska
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781446439654
Förlag:Cornerstone

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Bill Buford has been a writer and editor for the New Yorker since 1995. Before that he was the editor of Granta magazine for sixteen years and, in 1989, became the publisher of Granta Books. He is also the author of Heat and Among the Thugs. He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, grew up in California, and was educated at UC Berkeley and Kings College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a Marshall Scholarship for his work on Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. He lives in New York City with his wife, Jessica Green, and their two sons.

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"Superbly written ... darkly exhilarating ... a sort of rollercoaster chamber of horrors" Guardian "Compelling, intelligent and fully engaged" -- Martin Amis "[Buford] gatecrashes a social world that most of us have spent some portion of our lives avoiding and brings it to life on the page with a ferocious relish that only someone who was a foreigner to soccer could manage, or stomach" -- Jonathan Raban