{"product_id":"9780571377893","title":"The Unfinished Harauld Hughes : Richard Ayoade's hilarious fictional quest to rescue a practically mythical mid-century playwright from obscurity","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Ayoade, Richard \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 03\/10\/2024,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 192 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780571377893,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'So funny -- Nabokov meets Spinal Tap.' - Stephen Merchant'Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.' - Tim Key'Absolutely miraculous.' - Jesse Eisenberg'A brain-swirlingly funny quest.' - Robert PopperRichard Ayoade's fictional quest to rescue Harauld Hughes - the almost mythical mid-century playwright - from obscurity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAyoade 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of the story of that quest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43754267705388,"sku":"9780571377893","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780571377893.jpg?v=1724751266","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780571377893","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}