Among The Thugs
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Among The Thugs by Bill Buford
What sort of man spends his Saturday afternoons with people named Bonehead, Paraffin Pete and Steamin' Sammy? Bill Buford's acclaimed Among the Thugs is a book about the experience, and the attractions, of crowd violence.
"The definitive guide to hooligan culture" * joeco.uk *
"Buford's reportage is vivid and racy, dropping you in the thick of the madness with a Wolfe-like immediacy" * Daily Telegraph *
"The excellence of his writing takes the reader to the centre of the mob... His words have the fragmented accuracy of a hand-held television camera in a war zone" -- John Stalker * Sunday Times *
"Possesses something of the quality of A Clockwork Orange" * The Times *
"This is an absorbing read, and another winner from Buford, who writes so very, very well" * Buzzfeed *
"Sizzling writing to rival the best of white-heat gonzo journalism" * New Statesman *
"An extraordinary and powerful cautionary cry." * Kirkus *
"Brilliant. . . one of the most unnerving books you will ever read" * Newsweek *
"Buford creates with the majesty of a Tom Wolfe the ultimate price paid by so many for this footballing fever - the Hillsborough disaster, recalled with electrifying eloquence and power" * Time Out *
"[Buford] gtecrashes 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 football could manage, or stomach" * Jonathan Raban *
"A grotesque, horrifying, repellent and gorgeous book; A Clockwork Orange come to life." * John Gregory Dunne *
"A very readable, often funny, book." * The Economist *
"His prose is tough and vivid" * ID *
"Buford's book is important in that it offers a far more compelling explanation for the football violence than any offered by the pundits of Left and Right . . . Had Buford's account been written by a tabloid reporter or an academic sociologist it might be more easily dismissed. That is comes from a highly intelligent observer, and a neutral outsider with no axe to grind, makes his book all the more powerful and yet troubling." * Michael Crick, Independent *
"Buford's reportage is vivid and racy, dropping you in the thick of the madness with a Wolfe-like immediacy" * Daily Telegraph *
"The excellence of his writing takes the reader to the centre of the mob... His words have the fragmented accuracy of a hand-held television camera in a war zone" -- John Stalker * Sunday Times *
"Possesses something of the quality of A Clockwork Orange" * The Times *
"This is an absorbing read, and another winner from Buford, who writes so very, very well" * Buzzfeed *
"Sizzling writing to rival the best of white-heat gonzo journalism" * New Statesman *
"An extraordinary and powerful cautionary cry." * Kirkus *
"Brilliant. . . one of the most unnerving books you will ever read" * Newsweek *
"Buford creates with the majesty of a Tom Wolfe the ultimate price paid by so many for this footballing fever - the Hillsborough disaster, recalled with electrifying eloquence and power" * Time Out *
"[Buford] gtecrashes 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 football could manage, or stomach" * Jonathan Raban *
"A grotesque, horrifying, repellent and gorgeous book; A Clockwork Orange come to life." * John Gregory Dunne *
"A very readable, often funny, book." * The Economist *
"His prose is tough and vivid" * ID *
"Buford's book is important in that it offers a far more compelling explanation for the football violence than any offered by the pundits of Left and Right . . . Had Buford's account been written by a tabloid reporter or an academic sociologist it might be more easily dismissed. That is comes from a highly intelligent observer, and a neutral outsider with no axe to grind, makes his book all the more powerful and yet troubling." * Michael Crick, Independent *
Bill Buford is a staff writer for The New Yorker, where he was previously the fiction editor for eight years. He was editor-in-chief for Granta magazine for sixteen years and was also the publisher of Granta Books. He is the author of Heat. He lives in Lyon.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780099416340 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099416344 |
| Title | Among The Thugs |
| Author | Bill Buford |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 1992-09-03 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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