Bøger af Bill Buford

Walton Ford's large-scale watercolors of animals make up a unique anthropomorphic universe rich in sly jokes and hidden meaning. The most comprehensive survey of Ford's oeuvre to date, this publication features 40 new works, more than 120 additional pages, and a new essay by the artist. Also available in an Art Edition limited to 100...

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.

An updated edition of Pancha Tantra, Walton Ford's majestic yet menacing animal menagerie. Featuring the artist's most recent work as well as in-depth exploration of his oeuvre and excerpts from his textual inspirations, this collection of bestial tableaux is as once intricate in its naturalism as it is unsettling in its complex,...

What sort 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.

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 (with a wife and three-year-old twin sons in tow) for Lyon, the so-called gastronomic capital of France. 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.

Auf den ersten Blick erinnern Walton Fords großformatige, detailreiche Tieraquarelle an die Drucke der Illustratoren John James Audubon und Edward Lear aus dem 19. Jahrhunderts. Bei genauerem Hinsehen eröffnet sich jedoch ein komplexes und beunruhigend anthropomorphes Universum voller Symbolik , hintergründigem Humor und Anspielungen auf die "Opernhaftigkeit" traditioneller Naturkunde . In diesem beeindruckenden und zugleich unheimlichen visuellen Universum sind die Bestien nicht nur ästhetische Objekte , vielmehr dynamische Darsteller allegorischer Kämpfe : Ein wilder Truthahn zermalmt mit seiner Klaue einen kleinen Papagei; ein Trupp Affen verwüstet eine festlich gedeckte Tafel; ein Büffel ist von blutbefleckten weißen Wölfen umstellt. Diese Bilder in strahlenden Aquarellfarben fesseln nicht nur durch ihren verblüffenden Naturalismus , sondern auch durch die komplexen Geschichten , die sie erzählen. Diese aktualisierte Ausgabe von Pancha Tantra - die zunächst als signierte und limitierte Edition erschienen war - ist der bislang umfangreichste Überblick über Fords Werk mit über 20 neuen Arbeiten des Künstlers . Der Band bietet schillernde Details, eine eingehende Analyse seines Werks , eine vollständige Biographie und Auszüge aus Texten, die ihn inspirierten : von indianischen Volksmärchen über die Briefe von Benjamin Franklin und Das Leben des Benvenuto Cellini bis hin zu Audubons Ornithologischer Biographie .

Essays on Northern Ireland, South Africa, and the working lives of two writers accompanying short stories about the lower class in America from Granta Magazine.

This issue of Granta was inspired by the original campaign for the Best Young British Novelists. This book includes the writing from the 20 writers judged in 1983.

This special, double issue of Granta is organized to fill a gap, a felt emptiness in current literary achievement. At a time when it is imperative that we have a literature and a language that are responsible, accountable and instrumental to the lives of we are having to lead - a literature that is an adversary of oppression and not an accomplice to it - we have instead a writing that is remarkable only for its dubious feats of technical virtuosity, its relentless self-referentiality and its deliberate retreat from experience. Granta 6 is dedicated to a different set of possibilities - the possibilities of political engagement.

In this issue, arguments for the future of publishing by Brigid Brophy, John Sutherland, David Caute, Blake Morrison, Per Gedin, David Godine and Walter Abish. Also, fiction from Martin Amis, Guy Davenport, Nicole Ward Jouve, Kenneth Bernard and Raymond Carver. Plus, an essay on realism and sexuality by Mario Vargas Llosa.

Is it the end of the English novel? Has it grown predictable and unadventurous? Granta 3 collects work from writers and critics which points to the fact that our terms have grown inadequate: it is the end of the English novel; but it is also the beginning - quite possibly an extremely important beginning - of British fiction.

Prague, Beirut, Des Moines, Derry, and the ugliest village in Essex. What is home for an Arab in Israel? Or for an exile returning to the Iowa county fair? Plus: Nicholas Shakespeare in Peru in search of the leader of the Shining Path, Abimael Guzman, and Ian Hamilton in pursuit of J.D. Salinger.

Stanely Booth was meant to be the authorised biographer of the Rolling Stones, but, shortly after he began writing in 1968, things started to go wrong. The American concert tour that he joined ended in murder at a race track in the Californian desert, and the time that followed - in which Booth was assaulted by Hell's Angels, beaten up by American soldiers, run over by a lorry, imprisoned, and subjected to epileptic fits while trying to withdraw from drugs - was characterised only be confusion, loss and disillusionment. Completed fifteen years after it was begun, 'The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones' is only in part about the group of musicians it depicts. It is also a social history and a confession - a chronicle, in the tradition of Michael Herr's Dispatches, of people united in a curious commitment to their own destruction.