Among the Thugs Paperback - 1993
by Bill Buford
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.
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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.
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- Title Among the Thugs
- Author Bill Buford
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 1993-06-01
- ISBN 9780679745358 / 0679745351
- Weight 0.53 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 0.7 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Soccer - Social aspects - Great Britain, Soccer fans - Great Britain
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 92050650
- Dewey Decimal Code 363.32
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- Newsweek, 07/13/2009, Page 47
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