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Among the Thugs

Among the Thugs - Paperback

by Bill Buford
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Availability:In StockContributor:Bill BufordSeries:Vintage DeparturesPublish date:1993-06-01Pages:320
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679745358ISBN-10:679745351UPC:9780679745358Book Category:Political Science, History, Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:Law Enforcement, Europe, SoccerBook Topic:Great BritainSize:8.00 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SCZ0D05EC1
With an Orwellian social imagination, Granta editor Buford offers a terrifying record of his passage through an alternate society--that of England's soccer thugs--in this malevolently funny, supremely chilling document of the allure of crowd violence.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780679745358ISBN-10:679745351UPC:9780679745358Book Category:Political Science, History, Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:Law Enforcement, Europe, SoccerBook Topic:Great BritainSize:8.00 x 5.30 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.5313Product ID:SCZ0D05EC1
Bill Buford is a staff writer and the 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 Bill edited Granta magazine for 16 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, a highly personal nonfiction account of crowd violence and British soccer hooliganism.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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