Fig-leaf Edition
Oil! was banned in Boston for its motel sex scene. His publisher printed 150 copies of a "fig-leaf edition" with the offending nine pages blacked out. Sinclair protested the decision and hoped to bring an obscenity case to trial. He did not do so, but the controversy helped make the book a bestseller.
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