Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steamin' Sammy. They like lager (in huge quantities), the Queen, football clubs (especially Manchester United), and themselves. Their dislike encompasses the rest of the known universe, and England's soccer thugs express it in ways that range from mere vandalism to riots that terrorize entire cities. Now Bill Buford, editor of the prestigious journal Granta, enters this alternate society and records both its savageries and its sinister allure with the social imagination of a George Orwell and the raw personal engagement of a Hunter Thompson.-
The Lost City of Z
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A Year in Provence
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The Tiger
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Tracks
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Toujours Provence
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French Lessons
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Bury Me Standing
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The Good Rain
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Encore Provence
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The Road from Coorain
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One for the Road
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The Lady and the Monk
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Travels
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
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Passage to Juneau
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Goodbye to a River
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Driving Over Lemons
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The Ends of the Earth
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The Best of Outside
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Coyotes
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Orchid Fever
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Lasso the Wind
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The River's Tale
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Provence A-Z
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Eastward to Tartary
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Bad Land
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In an Antique Land
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The Global Soul
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On Persephone's Island
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Falling Off the Map
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A Beginner's Guide to Japan
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The Nile
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Rolling Nowhere
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Skyfaring
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Surrender or Starve
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A Tuscan Childhood
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Iron and Silk
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Bayou Farewell
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In Trouble Again
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Old Glory
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India in Mind
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Into the Heart of Borneo
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Tokyo Underworld
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Dinner with Persephone
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Sahara Unveiled
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Zen and Now
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Hong Kong
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Road Fever
Bill Buford is a Staff Writer and 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 he edited Granta magazine for sixteen 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 (Norton, 1992), a highly personal nonfiction account of crowd violence and British soccer hooliganism. For The New Yorker, he has written about sweatshops, the singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, and chef Mario Batali. Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1954, Bill Buford grew up in California and was educated at the University of California at Berkeley and at 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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780679745358 |
| ISBN 10 | 0679745351 |
| Title | Among the Thugs |
| Author | Bill Buford |
| Series | Vintage Departures |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1993-06-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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