Among The Thugs
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  • Published: 23 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9780525633419
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00

Among The Thugs

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25 Jan 2011
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23 Oct 2018
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15 Jun 2018
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Before Running with the Firm came Among the Thugs - the bestselling classic account of football violence in English football.

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.
  • Published: 23 October 2018
  • ISBN: 9780525633419
  • Imprint: RH US Audio Adult
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $23.00
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Bill Buford

Bill Buford has been a writer and editor for the New Yorker since 1995. Before that he was the editor of Granta magazine for sixteen years and, in 1989, became the publisher of Granta Books. He is also the author of Heat and Among the Thugs. He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, grew up in California, and was educated at UC Berkeley and 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.

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Praise for Among The Thugs

Praise for Among the Thugs:

  • "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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