The Seven Minutes
 First edition | |
| Author | Irving Wallace |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject |
Pornography Political science |
| Genre | Legal thriller |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Published in English | September 29, 1969 |
| Pages | 607 |
| ISBN | 0-671-20359-2 |
The Seven Minutes is a novel by Irving Wallace published in 1969 and released by Simon & Schuster. The book is a fictional account of the effects of pornography and the related arguments about freedom of speech.
Plot summary
The Seven Minutes chronicles a fictional obscenity trial of a banned book, The Seven Minutes by "J. J. Jadway," which purported to be the thoughts in a woman's mind during seven minutes of sexual intercourse. Wallace's extensively researched work contains numerous (attributed) quotes and presents well-supported arguments for both sides of his fictional debate.
Adaptation
The book was made into the film, The Seven Minutes, directed by Russ Meyer in 1971, co-starring Philip Carey, John Carradine, Wayne Maunder, Tom Selleck, Harold J. Stone, Yvonne DeCarlo, Edy Williams, Marianne McAndrew, and Jay C. Flippen.
In popular culture
The Olympia Press of Maurice Girodias, who was interviewed by Wallace during research for his book, published a novel, The Original Seven Minutes, whose author on the title page was J. J. Jadway, and whose content followed the indications in Wallace's novel. In other words, if Wallace's novel dealt with an allegedly obscene, fictional book, they claimed to be the publishers of that very book. Following legal action by Wallace, the book was withdrawn, and later republished as The Seven Erotic Minutes with the purported author's name and all references to Wallace removed.[1]
In the epilogue to the novel Eleven Minutes, Paulo Coelho cites Irving Wallace's book as a source of inspiration.
References
- ↑ "Original Seven Minutes by JJ Jadway - Olympia Press, New York 1970". google.com. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 11 November 2012.