ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: 0000
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

U vrlo dobrom stanju

Publisher Arrow
Publication date 1992
Binding Paperback
Number of pages 320

Review:
`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)
Book Description:
Before Running with the Firm came Among the Thugs - the first 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.

Buford, a native of the United States, is the editor of the London-based literary magazine Granta . In 1982 he witnessed the takeover of a train, a football special, by English soccer thugs. He reveals how fascination for this distinctly English phenomenon of `soccer hooliganism` led him to follow a group of violent supporters of the Manchester United Red Devils. Buford is accepted into the group and in time seems to develop a sixth sense about impending violence or when things, in English parlance, are `going to go off.` Particularly riveting is his account of the aftermath of a match in Turin, Italy, where 200 or so Manchester supporters marched through the ancient streets leaving fire and destruction in their wake. Buford`s original theories on football violence, fraught with notions about disenfranchised youth and the frustration of the working class, are forever dashed. He concludes that the English working class is dead, and what remains is a culture so vapid that ` . . . it pricks itself so that it has feeling, burns its flesh so that is has smell.`

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