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Among the Thugs

Among the Thugs

by Bill Buford (Author)

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    Paperback 1992

    $3.40
Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Arrow
Published: 03 Sep 1992
ISBN 10: 0099416344
ISBN 13: 9780099416340
Book Overview: 'Superbly written... darkly exhilarating... a sort of roller-coaster chamber of horrors' Guardian

Media Reviews
The definitive guide to hooligan culture * joe.co.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 *
Author Bio
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.