Among the Thugs 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.
Among the Thugs
Among the Thugs
Zusammenfassung
For eight years - the years of riots on Channel ferries, street-fighting outside Britain's football grounds, and the Heysel and Hillsborough disasters - Bill Buford, an American, travelled with football hooligans up and down Britain, and in Europe. This is an account of his experiences.
Among the Thugs Zusammenfassung
Among the Thugs Bewertungen
"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
"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
"From the Trade Paperback edition.
Zusätzliche Informationen
GOR002642098
9780749313289
0749313285
Among the Thugs Bill Buford
Gebraucht - Sehr Gut
Broschiert
Cornerstone
1992-09-03
318
N/A
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