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03641aam a2200493 i 4500 001 3103B4E486E611EB80D4A9DB35ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210317010020 007 ta 008 200313s2020 vraacf b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1925849449 020 $a 9781925849448 035 $a (OCoLC)1144100976 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d ATXTM $d OCLCF $d SINLB $d YDXIT $d SILO 050 4 $a Z658.A8 $b M85 2020 100 1 $a Mullins, Patrick, $d 1988- $e author. 245 14 $a The trials of Portnoy : $b how Penguin brought down Australia's censorship system / $c Patrick Mullins. 264 1 $a Melbourne, Vic. : $b Scribe, $c 2020. 300 $a 329 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, portraits ; $c 24 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a Fifty years after the event, here is the first full account of an audacious publishing decision that with the help of booksellers and readers around the country, forced the end of literary censorship in Australia. For more than seventy years, a succession of politicians, judges, and government officials in Australia worked in the shadows to enforce one of the most pervasive and conservative regimes of censorship in the world. The goal was simple: to keep Australia free of the moral contamination of impure literature. Under the censorship regime, books that might damage the morals of the Australian public were banned, seized, and burned; bookstores were raided; publishers were fined; and writers were charged and even jailed. But in the 1970s, that all changed. In 1970, in great secrecy and at considerable risk, Penguin Books Australia resolved to publish Portnoy's Complaint, Philip Roth's frank, funny, and profane bestseller about a boy hung up about his mother and his penis. In doing so, Penguin spurred a direct confrontation with the censorship authorities, which culminated in criminal charges, police raids, and an unprecedented series of court trials across the country. Sweeping from the cabinet room to the courtroom, The Trials of Portnoy draws on archival records and new interviews to show how Penguin and a band of writers, booksellers, academics, and lawyers determinedly sought for Australians the freedom to read what they wished and how, in defeating the forces arrayed before them, they reshaped Australian literature and culture forever. 600 10 $a Roth, Philip. $t Portnoy's complaint. 610 20 $a Penguin Books Australia Ltd $v Trials, litigation, etc. 610 27 $a Penguin Books Australia Ltd. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01975996 630 07 $a Portnoy's complaint (Roth, Philip) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01356369 650 0 $a Publishers and publishing $z Australia. 650 0 $a Censorship $z Australia. 650 0 $a Prohibited books $z Australia. 650 0 $a Trials (Obscenity) $z Australia. 650 0 $a Obscenity (Law) $z Australia. 650 0 $a Freedom of information $z Australia. 651 0 $a Australia $x History. 650 7 $a Censorship. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00850568 650 7 $a Freedom of information. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00934017 650 7 $a Obscenity (Law) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01042937 650 7 $a Prohibited books. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01078755 650 7 $a Publishers and publishing. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01083463 650 7 $a Trials (Obscenity) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01156379 651 7 $a Australia. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204543 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Trials, litigation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423712 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20220526014719.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=3103B4E486E611EB80D4A9DB35ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search