The Seven Minutes
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
At the heart of one of the twentieth century's most audacious courtroom dramas stands a single, notorious novel — a book accused of driving a young man to rape and murder, and the lawyers, publishers, and censors willing to stake everything on its defence. Irving Wallace's The Seven Minutes chronicles the explosive obscenity trial of a fictional erotic masterpiece, casting its narrative across a sprawling Los Angeles landscape of moral ambiguity, political ambition, and the eternal tension between freedom of expression and the limits of decency. The novel presents a gripping conflict between a crusading defence attorney and a district attorney whose motives are as much political as they are moral, drawing readers into a world where literature itself stands accused. Wallace constructs his argument with the precision of a legal brief and the passion of a true believer in civil liberties, illustrating how censorship is rarely about art and almost always about power. His signature style — meticulously researched, propulsively plotted, and populated with richly drawn characters from every stratum of society — transforms what might have been a dry polemic into a page-turning thriller of ideas. The Seven Minutes remains a bold and searching examination of who gets to decide what a society reads, and why the answer to that question matters more than most dare to admit.
Author: Irving Wallace
Format: Hardback
Published: 1969, New English Library
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Yellowed
At the heart of one of the twentieth century's most audacious courtroom dramas stands a single, notorious novel — a book accused of driving a young man to rape and murder, and the lawyers, publishers, and censors willing to stake everything on its defence. Irving Wallace's The Seven Minutes chronicles the explosive obscenity trial of a fictional erotic masterpiece, casting its narrative across a sprawling Los Angeles landscape of moral ambiguity, political ambition, and the eternal tension between freedom of expression and the limits of decency. The novel presents a gripping conflict between a crusading defence attorney and a district attorney whose motives are as much political as they are moral, drawing readers into a world where literature itself stands accused. Wallace constructs his argument with the precision of a legal brief and the passion of a true believer in civil liberties, illustrating how censorship is rarely about art and almost always about power. His signature style — meticulously researched, propulsively plotted, and populated with richly drawn characters from every stratum of society — transforms what might have been a dry polemic into a page-turning thriller of ideas. The Seven Minutes remains a bold and searching examination of who gets to decide what a society reads, and why the answer to that question matters more than most dare to admit.