$6.00
Softcover- 266 pages
Publisher: Lyons Press 1998 - First Edition
ISBN- 1-55821-404-6
Condition - Very Good - signed by author

Hustlers, Beats and Others, by Ned Polsky (University of Chicago Press, $7.95). None of the studies and essays in this book is new, but it is hard to imagine a book of sociology being so entertaining. For one thing, it is about deviants and deviance: the inhabitants of pool halls, pool hustlers, the Beats in Greenwich Village in 1960, criminals and pornography. For another, Polsky is a colorful writer and not one to mince words when on the attack.

His pool hustler chapter, a field study facilitated by Polsky`s 20-year affinity for pool, is worth the price of book. His speculation on the role of pornography as a safety valve for the expression of antisocial coitus--that is, impersonal, transitory, nonfamilial coitus--and therefore a complement to marriage will, or should, give pause to the Moral Majority and antipornography feminists alike. Chicago Tribune 1985