The Hoax
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| Rating | : | 4.39 (576 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1497644755 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-04 |
| Language | : | English |
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As fast-paced and exciting as any spy novel, it involves the reader at every devilish twist and turn. Why? The answer is implicit in this classic tale of daring, treachery, and corruption. But no American hardcover house would touch THE HOAX until now. 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. One major publisher offered a $500,000 advance when the book was nearing completion, drew up the contractthen abruptly bowed out. Clifford Irving tells how the hoax developed, like a Chinese puzzle, from its madcap beginning to the final startling confession--a witty and nail-biting story of international intrigue and beautiful women, of powerful corporate executives and jet-set rogues, of cover-ups and headlines. . HOAX was first published in Great Britain in 1997, where it became a bestseller
A hoax within a hoax? Sahra Badou This is the story of a man's scam to write the biography of Howard Hughes. He was able to scam his New York publishing house (McGraw Hill) by convincing them that Howard Hughes had commissioned him to write his authorized biography. His `hoax' made global newspaper headlines and was heralded as the biggest media scam of all time.This book will relate how Clifford Irving almost pulled out this stunt by opening fake Swiss accounts, writing forged. Gary Taylor said Irving's Skeleton Will Tickle Your Funny Bone. Clifford Irving takes his skeleton out of the closet and rattles its bones in your face.Irving employs self-deprecating humor to share the inside account of the most fascinating literary hoax of all time--his phony deal to write the authorized Howard Hughes autobiography. The event was so humiliating to the industry, it fought the publication of this book as long as it could, even though Irving had already served his time. And the author seemed. "So now we know" according to Charlezzzzz. You can't believe a word of this, of course, but it's well worth speed-reading the book. Irving is at arm's length from himself as he tells us how marvelous a creator of alternate reality he can be.
Clifford Irving, his wife, Edith, and his collaborator, Richard Suskind, went to prison for their efforts. But, as the author himself writes: “Beyond all the naivete and stupidity, beyond the vulgarity inherent in the amount of money involved—beyond all this a certain grandeur had rooted itself in the scheme, and I could still spy a reckless and artistic splendor to the way we had c
About the AuthorClifford Irving, his wife, Edith, and his collaborator, Richard Suskind, went to prison for their efforts. But, as the author himself writes: “Beyond all the naivete and stupidity, beyond the vulgarity inherent in the amount of money involved—beyond all this a certain grandeur had rooted itself in the scheme, and I could still spy a reckless and artistic splendor to the way we had carried it out.”