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Bill Buford

    1 de enero de 1954

    Bill Buford es un autor y periodista estadounidense. Su obra se sumerge en mundos fascinantes y a menudo peligrosos, explorando subculturas y el comportamiento humano con una curiosidad penetrante. El estilo de Buford se caracteriza por su periodismo inmersivo y su capacidad para transportar a los lectores directamente al corazón de sus temas. A través de sus narraciones, descubre las complejas motivaciones y dinámicas que dan forma a las sociedades humanas.

    Dirt
    Among the Thugs
    Biography
    What Went Wrong?
    The Soccer War
    New Europe!
    • Dirt

      • 432 páginas
      • 16 horas de lectura

      'A chomping, romping, savoury tour de force: by turns hilarious, and seriously thought provoking' Simon SchamaFor most of his adult life, Bill Buford had secretly wanted to find himself in France, in a French kitchen, having mastered the art of French haute cuisine.

      Dirt2020
      4,1
    • Granta 38

      • 256 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      Featuring the fictional début of Bill Morris, set in the design department of General Motors, between New Year’s Day and New Year’s Eve 1954: the year (Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe, Dwight Eisenhower, and Edgar Hoover) when America changed. Plus: Ivan Klìma, Tracy Kidder, Eugene Richards, Louise Erdrich, Adam Mars-Jones, and Sue Halpern.

      Granta 382008
    • Biography

      • 260 páginas
      • 10 horas de lectura

      Why do biographies remain so popular? Granta 41 presents a special collection of biographies organized around a single idea - how do you tell the story of a life'. Also in this issue is the exclusive first publication of Saul Bellow's Memoirs of a Bootlegger's Son, James Atlas on Bellow's apprenticeship in Chicago, Andrew Motion on the discovery of Philip Larkin's secret Northumberland hideaway, Gabriel Garcia Marquez on the mysterious Frau Frida whom he first met in Vienna after the war, plus Richard Holmes, Ian Hamilton, Louise Eldrich, Lorna Sage, and Luc Sante amid the police archives of 1914 New York.

      Biography2008
      3,5
    • Heat

      • 336 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Bill Buford, an enthusiastic, if rather chaotic, home cook, was asked by the New Yorker to write a profile of Mario Batali, a Falstaffian figure of voracious appetites who runs one of New York's most successful three-star restaurants. Buford accepted the commission, on the condition Batali allow him to work in his kitchen, as his slave.

      Heat2007
      3,9
    • The Soccer War

      • 240 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Here, with characteristic cogency and emotional immediacy, he recounts the stories behind his official press dispatches—searing firsthand accounts of the frightening, grotesque, and comically absurd aspects of life during war. The Soccer War is a singular work of journalism.

      The Soccer War2007
      4,2
    • Best of Young British Novelists

      • 320 páginas
      • 12 horas de lectura

      Granta 43 celebrates a new generation of twenty of the best new British writers. Selected by Salman Rushdie, A. S. Byatt, John Mitchinson and Bill Buford.

      Best of Young British Novelists1993
      3,9
    • 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 Thugs1992
      4,1
    • What Went Wrong?

      • 256 páginas
      • 9 horas de lectura

      This edition of Granta includes stories by Victoria Tokareva, Hans Magnus Enzenberger, Christa Wolf, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Isabel Allende, Martin Amis and Romsesh Gunesekera.

      What Went Wrong?1990
      3,0
    • An issue of Granta devoted to all things Soviet, including fiction, non-fiction, photographs, interviews and an exclusive interview with Mikhail Gorbachev by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

      New Europe!1990
      4,0
    • Granta 28: Birthday

      The Anniversary Issue

      • 287 páginas
      • 11 horas de lectura

      Essays and stories deal with violence in China, travel, South African architecture, the past pilgrimages, death, and fame

      Granta 28: Birthday1989