Slim’s Table (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Mitchell Duneier
- First Published: 1992
- Type of Work: Sociology
- Time of Work: Mid- to late 1980’s
- Setting: Chicago, Illinois
- Principal Characters: Mitchell Duneier, Spiro, Gus, Bart, Hughes, Slim, Robert Jackson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Sociology
- Subjects: Race, Restaurants, bars, taverns, or pubs, 1980’s, Inner cities or inner-city life, Working class
- Locales: Chicago, IL
It is rare for a major university press to do an initial press run of five thousand copies of a revised doctoral dissertation. It is rarer still for such a large press run to sell out in two months, forcing the publisher to run a second printing as quickly as possible. It is unheard of for five production companies, including Warner Bros., to seek rights to film a doctoral dissertation. Such, however, is the history of Mitchell Duneier’s adaptation of his thesis written for the University of Chicago’s department of sociology.
Trained in the field methods of the Chicago...
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