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The Hoax
The Hoax
Author: Clifford Irving
The ultimate caper story, novelist Clifford Irving's no-holds-barred account of the literary hoax of our time--his "autobiography" of Howard Hughes--was published in Great Britain in 1997, where it became a bestseller. But no American hardcover house would touch THE HOAX until now. One major publisher offered a $500,000 advance when the book wa...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780932966148
ISBN-10: 0932966144
Publication Date: 6/1981
Pages: 378
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Publisher: Permanent Press (NY)
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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interesting but very long.
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I waited and waited to get this book from my wishlist. I thought it would be so interesting to learn how Irving justified his decisions. I started reading the book and realized pretty quickly that he had no justification. He perpetuated the hoax just because he could. His arrogance turned me off completely--I couldn't even finish the book. Maybe the book could be read as a statement about the "freewheeling, anything goes" time, a good cultural period piece. As far as being a good story, though, not so much.
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This is more weird than any fiction. This is the book that brough Howard Hughes out of hiding.


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