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The Unfinished Harauld Hughes

Richard Ayoade's hilarious fictional quest to rescue a mythical mid-century playwright from obscurity

Richard Ayoade author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Faber & Faber

Publishing:10th Apr '25

£9.99

This title is due to be published on 10th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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'So funny -- Nabokov meets Spinal Tap.' - Stephen Merchant
'Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.' - Tim Key
'Absolutely miraculous.' - Jesse Eisenberg
'A brain-swirlingly funny quest.' - Robert Popper

Richard Ayoade's fictional quest to rescue Harauld Hughes - the almost mythical mid-century playwright - from obscurity.

The gifted filmmaker, corduroy activist and amateur dentist, Richard Ayoade, first chanced upon a copy of The Two-Hander Trilogy by Harauld Hughes in a second-hand bookshop. At first startled by his uncanny resemblance to the author's photo, he opened the volume and was electrified. Terse, aggressive, and elliptical, what was true of Ayoade was also true of Hughes's writing, which encompassed stage, screen, and some of the shortest poems ever published.

Ayoade embarked on a documentary, The Unfinished Harauld Hughes, to understand the unfathomable collapse of Hughes's final film O Bedlam! O Bedlam!, taking us deep inside the most furious British writer since the Boer War.

This is the story of the story of that quest.

ISBN: 9780571339174

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

256 pages

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