by Bill Buford, Ian Hamilton · Granta Magazine · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140140644
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«Gazza Agonistes» is issue 45 of Granta magazine, with an essay by Ian Hamilton, published by Granta Magazine in paperback (252 pages, in English).
The issue centers on Ian Hamilton's report on Paul Gascoigne: the footballer's life, his relationship with fame and the press, and the price of celebrity. It also includes pieces by Jonathan Raban on the overflowing Mississippi, Timothy Garton Ash on Erich Honecker, and portraits of the First World War by Steve Pyke.
Edited by Bill Buford, this volume is part of the Granta: The Magazine of New Writing series and was originally published in 1993.
Aimed at readers interested in literary journalism, football and the figure of the sporting celebrity.
William Holmes Buford is an American author and journalist. He is the author of the books Among the Thugs and Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. Buford was previously the fiction editor for The New Yorker, where he is still on staff. For sixteen years, he was the editor of Granta, which he relaunched in 1979. He is also credited with coining the term "dirty realism."
