Background
He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and raised in Southern California, attending the University of California at Berkeley before moving to King"s College, University of Cambridge, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar.
(They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steam...)
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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(Quem e a multidao que destroi estadios, cidades e vidas h...)
Quem e a multidao que destroi estadios, cidades e vidas humanas? Por que em certos dias baixa um espirito arruaceiro e barbaro em parcela da juventude inglesa, que conduz a comportamentos racistas, antissociais e sanguinarios? Para responder a essas perguntas, colocadas pela sua natural curiosidade de jornalista investigativo, Bill Buford conviveu com os hooligans ingleses durante quase quatro anos. Fartou-se de fishnchips embrulhados em papel jornal e oceanos de cerveja barata; de odores de milhares de corpos em friccao pouco amigavel e de gas lacrimogeneo; de sentimentos que mesclam o medo a excitacao quase sexual. Mais do que fazer um exercicio de sociologia do comportamento grupal patologico, Buford, neste relato eletrizante, nos mostra como a experiencia da violencia de massa, partilhada sob o manto do suposto anonimato, exerce um apelo insidioso, por vezes irresistivel, ate as mentes mais esclarecidas.
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(This is a collection of fiction, memoir, biography and re...)
This is a collection of fiction, memoir, biography and reportage, focusing on the family, which has been published by Granta since 1980. The collection includes works by Peter Carey, Angela Carter, Raymond Carver, Hugh Collins, Bret Easton Ellis, Louis Erdich, Mikal Gilmore, Michael Ignatieff, Ian Jack, Blake Morrison, Mona Simpson, William Wharton, Geoffrey Wolff, Sousa Jamba, Doris Lessing, Beverly Lowry, Christian McEwen, Tod McEwen, Candia McWilliam, Leonard Michaels and Susan J. Miller.
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He was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and raised in Southern California, attending the University of California at Berkeley before moving to King"s College, University of Cambridge, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar.
Bachelor, University California, Berkeley, 1977. Master of Arts, King's College, University Cambridge, England, 1979.
Buford is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur"s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Lincolnshire Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. He remained in England for most of the 1980s. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff
Foreign sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979.
Bufford is credited with coining the term "dirty realism".
(Quem e a multidao que destroi estadios, cidades e vidas h...)
(This is a collection of fiction, memoir, biography and re...)
(They have names like Barmy Bernie, Daft Donald, and Steam...)
Married Alicja Kobiernicka, July 6, 1991 (divorced January 1996).