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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 that stunned the publishing world, is the story of his faked ?autobiography? of Howard Hughes. HOAX was first published in Great Britain in 1997, where it became a bestseller. But no American hardcover house would touch THE HOAX until now. One major...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781497644755
ISBN-10: 1497644755
Publication Date: 9/16/2014
Pages: 328
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Publisher: Open Road Media
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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reviewed The Hoax on + 7 more book reviews
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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