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Set at Random|Declan Dunne

Set at Random : The Book That Wouldn't Lie Down

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Overview

A teenage boy from the Texas heartland is drawn into a comedy whirlwind; rolling up his sleeves in the fight to publish the most outrageous book ever written. Set Wright blazes a trail through suffocating censors and puritanical organizations to help lift the US ban on James Joyce's Ulysses. The battle culminates in the greatest literary trial of the twentieth century; pitting the publishers, Random House, against the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, which views Ulysses as scandalous and obscene. Amid the trampoline exhilarations and swamp-sucking drama of the court case, Set's odyssey leads him to first love and having to make a cliff-edge decision both surprising and revelatory.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781724899620
  • ISBN-10: 1724899627
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publish Date: October 2018
  • Dimensions: 9.02 x 5.98 x 0.69 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
  • Page Count: 308

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