books by Bill Buford

books by Bill Buford

books:

Bill Buford

Granta 22: With Your Tongue Down My Throat (Granta (Viking))

Penguin Books, 1988

The Best American Travel Writing 2000 (The Best American Series (TM))

Houghton Mifflin, 2000

An Outsanding Collection of Stories
"Best American Travel Writing 2000" is the first edition in yet another outstanding entry in the "Best American" series. It is structured like other "Best American" books, with a series editor and a yearly guest editor putting their heads together and selecting two ...

Granta 49: Money (Granta (Viking))

Penguin Books, 1994

Granta 48 Africa (Granta (Viking))

Penguin Books, 1994

Great Writing, Shocking Stories
Granta is a quarterly British magazine that offers the best of new British writing, as well as reportage and photographs. Each edition is dedicated to a particular theme, in this case, Africa. Almost all Granta's are good but some are better than others and this one ...

Among the Thugs

Bill Buford

Vintage, 1993

Don't Believe Pretentious Twits
This is a fantastic book, and what's more, it has served as a model and inspiration for the many (many, many) football hooligan books that followed. I won't really comment on the absolute cliched tripe served up by one reviewer who gave this book one star, but I ...

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting ...

Bill Buford

Vintage, 2007

Apprentice of apprentices
Anyone who has ever worked at a continental-style restaurant should read this book. I picked up "Heat" in the interests of reliving my experiences in two continental restaurants, run by two totally different-in-temperament chefs, one Austrian, one Swiss. Neither one ...

Heat

Bill Buford

Alfred A Knopf, 2006

A brilliant wonderful eating extravaganza
One of the most important and wonderful books of the year that will leave the taste buds salivating for more. Buford is an amazing author who conjures up the life of the kitchen and makes the reader angry at those who abuse him and joyous over the meals being ...

Granta 31: The General

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1990

Looking for help
To whom it may concern, I am writing to you, and I am looking for help, I am currently doing a story about Dalai Lama and Panchen Lama, I know there is a book named The Search For The Panchen Lama, the author is Isbel Hilton, is there anyone who can help me to get the ...

Granta 44: The Last Place on Earth

Penguin Books, 1993

Many fine pieces make up this Granta issue. There's Thomas Kern's photo journal of Sarajevo, and Ivan Klima's childhood in Terezin. And then there's Bruce Chatwin and his moleskin journals. From one of them comes a selection titled "The Road to Ouidah," starting 2 January 1971 in Niamey, Niger, and ending 9 February in Cotonou en route to ...

Granta 37: The Family (Granta (Viking))

Penguin Books, 1991

Family Viewing, M rated
A set of seminal short pieces by a literary who's who of contemporary literature. The stories range far & wide, with all the pain & joy imaginable. I've re-read this over the years, everything in it, completely gob-smacked each time by Mikal Gilmore's revelations about ...

Heat
Bill Buford

Books on CD/Tape, 2006

Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany . (memoir & Biography). Audio CD book. Read by Michael Kramer. 10 compact discs. 12 hours, 19 minutes. Unabridged edition. 2006 Books-on-Tape/CD

Death (Granta: The Magazine of New Writing)

Penguin Books / Granta, 1990

Exploring the Dark side of Death
Even old issues of Granta are on the edge of what's hot and new! This issue deals with death, both future and past. The series of short stories by some of the most hot authors around, all seem to flow easily from one story to the next. Includes Jeremy Harking, John ...

Granta 34: Death of a Harvard Man (Granta (Viking))

Penguin Books, 1990

Granta 43: Best of Young British Novelists 2 (Granta (Viking))

Penguin Books, 1993

Walton Ford: Pancha Tantra
Bill Buford

Taschen, 2007

Natural selection ?Audubon-on-Viagra?? ?New York magazine, New York Walton Ford's life-sized watercolors of animals could be mistaken for 19th-century natural-science illustrations or British colonial paintings. Except they?re not. Something strange and usually sinister is happening in each of Ford's works, whether it's a turkey crushing a small ...