Book Censorship
Sir, —Congratulations on Wednesday’s leading article. It is a sorry state when our country’s bookshops may stock the “strangled nude blonde” variety of paper-back but are not allowed to sell “Borstal Boy,” described by “The Times” Literary Supplement as a “work of unique authority in its confident evocation of the very, breath and being of life under captivity.” Of Brendan Behan “The Times” Literary Supplement refers to his “tremendous gift of language” and “capacity to see beyond the superficial level of bawdy talk and wicked deeds,” a capacity obviously not shared by at least one of our fellow New Zealanders. —Yours, etc., January 21, 1959.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28800, 22 January 1959, Page 3
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