{"product_id":"2026100010919-secondhand-the-seven-minutes","title":"The Seven Minutes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Wear and tear with damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt 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.\n\nWallace 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50572712804571,"sku":"2026100010919-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/9108ee8b-1ef1-444e-a182-232cc6723a13.png?v=1791167328","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100010919-secondhand-the-seven-minutes","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}