Among the Thugs

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Among the Thugs - Buford, Bill
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With an Orwellian social imagination, Granta editor Buford offers a terrifying record of his passage through an alternate society--that of England's soccer thugs--in this malevolently funny, supremely chilling document of the allure of crowd violence. Author reading tour.
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$18.00  $16.74
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Pages
320
Dimensions
5.3 X 8.0 X 0.7 inches | 0.53 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780679745358

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About the Author
Bill Buford is a staff writer and the European correspondent for The New Yorker. He was the fiction editor of the magazine for eight years, from April 1995 to December 2002. Before that Bill edited Granta magazine for 16 years and, in 1989, became the publisher of Granta Books. He has edited three anthologies: The Best of Granta Travel, The Best of Granta Reportage, and The Granta Book of the Family. Bill is also the author of Among the Thugs, a highly personal nonfiction account of crowd violence and British soccer hooliganism.
Reviews
"A grotesque, horrifying, repellent and gorgeous book; A Clockwork Orange come to life." --John Gregory Dunne

"An important, perhaps prophetic, book ... both exciting and sad at the core.... [Buford is] a superbly talented reporter." --The New York Times Book Review

"Brilliant ... one of the most unnerving books you will ever read." --Newsweek

Like Michael Herr or Ryszard Kapuscinski, Buford has witnessed events which can only be compared in intensity to those of a war ... an unflinching look into the festering soul of England ... a fuckin' great read." --David Byrne

Animated, witty, and so pungent you can taste the stale lager." --Washington Post Book World
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