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

by Declan Dunne (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Declan Dunne has written "Peter's Key - Peter DeLoughry and the fight for Irish Independence" and a bestseller in Ireland, "Mulligan's - Grand Old pub of Poolbeg Street," both published by Mercier Press. He has also written "Palais Royal - Musée du Louvre" a screenplay in French and several plays in English including "Whispers to the boy unseen." He lives in Dublin where he works as a journalist with Ireland's national broadcasting company, RTE.