Among the Thugs

2013-04-24 Sports & Recreation

Author : Bill Buford
Release : 2013-04-24
Genre : Sports & Recreation
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 516/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Among the Thugs by : Bill Buford

Download or read book Among the Thugs written by Bill Buford. This book was released on 2013-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Among The Thugs

2011-01-25 Biography & Autobiography

Author : Bill Buford
Release : 2011-01-25
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 658/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Among The Thugs by : Bill Buford

Download or read book Among The Thugs written by Bill Buford. This book was released on 2011-01-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ___________________________ THE BESTSELLING ACCOUNT OF FOOTBALL VIOLENCE Welcome to the world of football thuggery. They have names like Bonehead, Paraffin Pete and Steamin’ Sammy. They like lager, football, the Queen, and themselves. They love England. They dislike the rest of the known universe. The beautiful game remains ugly. From following Manchster's Red Army to drinking with skinheads, acclaimed writer Bill Buford enters this alternate society and records both its savageries and its sinister allure with the social imagination of George Orwell and the raw personal engagement of Hunter S. Thompson. Among the Thugs is a terrifying, malevolently funny, supremely chilling book about the experience, and the eerie allure, of crowd violence and football culture.

Among the Thugs

2001 Deviant behavior

Author : Bill Buford
Release : 2001
Genre : Deviant behavior
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 344/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Among the Thugs by : Bill Buford

Download or read book Among the Thugs written by Bill Buford. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed bestseller (over 63,000 copies sold in paperback) now reissued with a new cover. What kind 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.

Dirt

2020-05-05 Cooking

Author : Bill Buford
Release : 2020-05-05
Genre : Cooking
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 197/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Dirt by : Bill Buford

Download or read book Dirt written by Bill Buford. This book was released on 2020-05-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “You can almost taste the food in Bill Buford’s Dirt, an engrossing, beautifully written memoir about his life as a cook in France.” —The Wall Street Journal What does it take to master French cooking? This is the question that drives Bill Buford to abandon his perfectly happy life in New York City and pack up and (with a wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow) move to Lyon, the so-called gastronomic capital of France. But what was meant to be six months in a new and very foreign city turns into a wild five-year digression from normal life, as Buford apprentices at Lyon’s best boulangerie, studies at a legendary culinary school, and cooks at a storied Michelin-starred restaurant, where he discovers the exacting (and incomprehensibly punishing) rigueur of the professional kitchen. With his signature humor, sense of adventure, and masterful ability to bring an exotic and unknown world to life, Buford has written the definitive insider story of a city and its great culinary culture.

Running with the Firm

2013-08-15 Biography & Autobiography

Author : James Bannon
Release : 2013-08-15
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 313/5 ( reviews)

GET EBOOK

Book Synopsis Running with the Firm by : James Bannon

Download or read book Running with the Firm written by James Bannon. This book was released on 2013-08-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Of course I'm a f**king hooligan, you pr**k. I am a hooligan...there I've said it...I'm a hooligan. And, do you know why? Because that's my f**king job.' In 1995, a film called I.D., about an ambitious young copper who was sent undercover to track down the ‘generals’ of a football hooligan gang, achieved cult status for its sheer brutality and unsettling insight into the dark and often bloody side of the so-called beautiful game. The film was so shocking it was hard to believe the mindless events that took place could ever happen in the real world. Well, believe it now... Almost twenty years on, the man behind the film has explosively revealed that the script was largely a true story. That man, James Bannon, was the ambitious undercover cop. The football club was Millwall F.C. and the gang that he infiltrated was The Bushwackers, among the most brutal and fearless in English football. In Running with the Firm, Bannon shares his intense and dangerous journey into the underworld of football hooliganism where sickening levels of violence prevail over anything else. He introduces you to the hardest thugs from football’s most notorious gangs, tells all about the secret and almost comical police operations that were meant to bring them down, and, how once you’re on the inside, getting out from the mob proves to be the biggest mission of all. A disturbing but compelling read, this is the book that proves fact really is stranger than fiction.

Popular eBooks

Among the Thugs

Among The Thugs

Among the Thugs

Dirt

Running with the Firm

You may also like...