{"product_id":"unfinished-harauld-hughes-richard-ayoades-hilarious-fictional-quest-to-rescue-a-mythical-mid-century-playwright-from-obscurity","title":"Unfinished Harauld Hughes: Richard Ayoade's Hilarious Fictional Quest to Rescue a Mythical Mid-Century Playwright from Obscurity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'So funny - Nabokov meets Spinal Tap.' STEPHEN MERCHANT\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.' TIM KEY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Absolutely miraculous.' JESSE EISENBERG\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A brain-swirlingly funny quest.' ROBERT POPPER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Ayoade's fictional quest to rescue Harauld Hughes - the almost mythical mid-century playwright - from obscurity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe gifted filmmaker, corduroy activist and amateur dentist, Richard Ayoade, first chanced upon a copy of \u003ci\u003eThe Two-Hander Trilogy\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Ayoade embarked on a documentary, \u003ci\u003eThe Unfinished Harauld Hughes\u003c\/i\u003e, to understand the unfathomable collapse of Hughes's final film \u003ci\u003eO Bedlam! O Bedlam!\u003c\/i\u003e, taking us deep inside the mind of the most furious British writer since the Boer War. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This is the story of the story of that quest.\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReaders love The Unfinished Harauld Hughes: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Buy it, it's hilarious.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Intelligent humour at its best.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Terrific, funny, nuts!\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I was snorting with laughter.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Very clever, very funny.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Ayoade","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47285662482668,"sku":"9780571339174","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780571339174.jpg?v=1770414382","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/unfinished-harauld-hughes-richard-ayoades-hilarious-fictional-quest-to-rescue-a-mythical-mid-century-playwright-from-obscurity","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}