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The Football Factory
John King
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Description for The Football Factory
Paperback. Focuses on Tom Johnson, a reasoned 'Chelsea hooligan' who represents a disaffected society operating by brutal rules. In this book, we are shown the realities of life - social degradation, unemployment, excessive drink and bad sex - and, more importantly, how they fall into a political context of surveillance, media manipulation and division. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 200.
The Football Factory centres on Tom Johnson, a reasoned 'Chelsea hooligan' who represents a disaffected society operating by brutal rules. We are shown the realities of life - social degradation, unemployment, racism, casual violence, excessive drink and bad sex - and, perhaps more importantly, how they fall into a political context of surveillance, media manipulation and division.
Graphic and disturbing, sometimes very funny, and deeply affecting throughout, The Football Factory is a vertiginous rush of adrenaline - the most authentic book yet on the so-called English Disease.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099731917
SKU
V9780099731917
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-13
About John King
John King is the author of nine novels - The Football Factory, Headhunters, England Away, Human Punk, White Trash, The Prison House, Skinheads, The Liberal Politics Of Adolf Hitler and Slaughterhouse Prayer. The Football Factory has been turned into a high-profile film and his books have been widely translated abroad. He has also written short stories and non-fiction for a number of publications over the years, with articles appearing in the likes of The New Statesman, Le Monde and La Repubblica. He edits the fiction fanzine Verbal and lives in London.
Reviews for The Football Factory
The best book I've read about football and working-class culture in Britain in the nineties. Buy, steal or borrow a copy now
Irvine Welsh
Fever Pitch with testosterone and eight pints of lager. Like Fever Pitch, it is not exclusively a novel about football. This is a chronicle of a lost tribe – the white, Anglo-Saxon, heterosexual who is fed up with being told he is crap.
Glasgow Herald
Not only an outstanding read, but also an important social document... This book should be compulsory reading for all those who believe in the existence, or even attainability, of a classless society
Sunday Tribune
Powerfully written and tells you more about the mentality of those who disrupt football matches than all the theses of the sociologist academics put together
Daily Mail
Bleak, thought-provoking and brutal... Has all the hallmarks of a cult novel
Literary Review
Irvine Welsh
Fever Pitch with testosterone and eight pints of lager. Like Fever Pitch, it is not exclusively a novel about football. This is a chronicle of a lost tribe – the white, Anglo-Saxon, heterosexual who is fed up with being told he is crap.
Glasgow Herald
Not only an outstanding read, but also an important social document... This book should be compulsory reading for all those who believe in the existence, or even attainability, of a classless society
Sunday Tribune
Powerfully written and tells you more about the mentality of those who disrupt football matches than all the theses of the sociologist academics put together
Daily Mail
Bleak, thought-provoking and brutal... Has all the hallmarks of a cult novel
Literary Review