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  • Paperback: 328 pages
  • Publisher: Open Road Media; Reprint edition (September 16, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1497644755
  • ISBN-13: 978-1497644755
  • Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsA Whodunit From The One Who Did It
By Best Of All on August 23, 2006
Format: Paperback
I was a young person at the time of the world-wide controversy surrounding the publication of the Hughes "autobiography," and needless to say it was front-page news.

By this time Hughes had not been seen or heard from by the public for more than a decade and many people felt he was dead, perhaps in an accident around the time he "disappeared." And in the shroud of mystery emerges a book on his life that Hughes granted the author - Irving - unprecedented access through a series of interviews on his life.

Then came the debate on the validity of the book, which was only solved by the eccentric billionaire ending his silence - not in front of a camera, but through a long-distance phone call to a panel of journalists who knew Hughes from years past.

I purchased The Hoax as one who was absolutely fascinated in how Irving nearly pulled off the crime. And if it wasn't for the phone call by Hughes to state the book was a fraud it can be argued that the debate would have continued for years, but Irving's deception would have been successful. The reality was Irving believed Hughes was too ill to repudiate the book.

The Hoax remains one of the favorite books I ever read.
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3.0 out of 5 starsThe Riveting Tale of a Selfish Man
By Laura Lee on September 22, 2007
Format: Audio CD
The drama of this tale makes it a page turner (or in the case of an audiobook a long-listener). Yet it is, at its center, somewhat unsatisfying because the author and main character seems blissfully unaware of how his behavior might affect others. As he flies around the world on his mad adventure, enjoying his extramarital affairs with seemingly little reflection as his wife is committing bank fraud for him at home, he lies to friends and business partners as if the whole matter were out of his control.

The amazing coincidences, strokes of luck and close calls are the stuff of great fiction. As the author writes himself into his own movie, his fictional autobiography and the fiction he must create for the people at McGraw Hill become simply two parts of one elaborate writing project. As you see him encounter one close call after another, you want him to get away with it, yet you know that there is only one possible outcome. He's going to be caught.

The book becomes much less satisfying as it moves into Irving's downward trajectory as his hoax is unraveled and the consequences loom, as it certainly was for the author. The pain inflicted on his wife through both the legal ramifications of the hoax and the revelation of Irving's affairs are difficult to read. Irving does express remorse for that and for lying to one or two friends, but in general he seems to view his hoax as a victimless joke.

McGraw Hill is a corporation done in by greed in his tale, and the people who were duped and whose reputations surely took a beating, most likely would find that compounded by this book.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsTruth is more Complex than Falsity
By A Customer on August 4, 2000
Format: Hardcover
This book has the ring of truth to it, and that is unmistakeable. It's the story of a writer who hoodwinked the world by writing the hoax autobiography of billionaire Howard Hughes, and paid the price by going to prison. It reads like a novel, in the sense that it's thrilling, and you understand Clifford Irving to the bone. It's well-paced, filled with memorable characters and incidents, and if there were ever a book to nail down the sin of greed in both individuals and corporations, this is it. I loved it.
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5.0 out of 5 starsA wonderful memoir of a daring caper
By Edmond M. Sommer on March 20, 2007
Format: Paperback
I read this book many years ago, and loved it, and bought this new paperback edition as gifts for many of my friends. I haven't seen the Richard Gere movie yet but I can't believe it will measure up to the quality of the writing and the amazing edge-of-your-seat and yet literate caper tale that Mr. Irving relates. I know he's meant to be a rogue, but I also know he's one of our best living writers, who has written some splendid novels (including "Trial", "Tom Mix and Pancho Villa," and the great art forgery tale, "Fake.") This current book, a first-person account of the Howard Hughes Hoax back in the 70s, is the way memoirs are meant to be written: from the heart, witty, with not a word out of place. You read this and you think, "I'd like to know this man." He's wise and droll and he's led an adventurous life that few of us even dream of. You can't go wrong, in my opinion, with a Clifford Irving book, and this is one of his best.
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5.0 out of 5 starsIncredible thrilling true tale
By JVB on August 12, 2006
Format: Paperback
I had avoided reading this book, although several friends recommended it. Finally I read it, because there's a movie coming out soon (Richard Gere plays Irving) based on the events. I discovered that it's an amazing story about a man who defied and bilked the literary establishment and the Howard Hughes hierarchy and at the same time -- this was in 1972 -- enraged Richard Nixon's White House and may indeed have been the prime reason that the Nixon gang broke into the Watergate (to find out if Irving had given the Democrats secret information about Hughes' "loans" to Nixon).

Yes, Irving was a rogue, but what a delightful and literate rogue. Moreover, the book is one of the best written first-person narratives I've ever read; it's wise and witty at the same time as it's a gripping tale. People wonder if Irving told the truth in the book. I believe it has an unmistakeable ring of truth. You can't fake that, ever.

Clifford Irving's many novels are next on my list.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

4.0 out of 5 starsNot Irving finest but it will keep your attention

I liked it very much, a good plot but I was not happy with the ending. Would make a great movie.

Published 4 months ago by Jack Warye
5.0 out of 5 starsWOW, The Hoax explains all of the mystery in the autobiography

Well, this explains everything. The autobiography alludes to it, but not the truth finally comes out. Another page turner by our friend
Clifford Irving

Published 5 months ago by james
1.0 out of 5 starssloow

The pace of this book is slooow. There is no humor.

Published 7 months ago by YIPLIU
5.0 out of 5 starsGreat story of what happens when people REALLY want to believe...

I really enjoyed the book. Very well written. I was fascinated by the "interviews" with Howard Hughes, then had to remind myself they were all fake. Read more

Published 8 months ago by Mark J. Bennett
4.0 out of 5 starsFour Stars

Thank you

Published 8 months ago by Heidi
5.0 out of 5 starsSounds like Hughes to me.

Great read and well worth the time!

Published 11 months ago by Roy
4.0 out of 5 starsGood Read

Very interesting and riveting. Only thing is he did not disclose if he divorced or not, but from content assume he did.

Published 12 months ago by David Carter
1.0 out of 5 starsboring

Give it a good effort, just way too slow and boring story line for me. Maybe just not my style, just put me to sleep!

Published 13 months ago by Larry Holmes
5.0 out of 5 starsA cautionary tale from the Watergate Era, when truth had become a...

What a rollicking tale, and true, too!
In 1971, reading a Newsweek article about Howard R. Hughes, Irving comes up with the idea of writing a fake "authorized biography" of... Read more

Published 17 months ago by Skyhawk
4.0 out of 5 starsGood Read, But Not as Good as the Movie

Not as good as the feature film starring Richard Gere and Alfred Molina, but a great companion for anyone wanting to dive more fully into the personality and life of the real... Read more

Published 18 months ago by I Love Bob Newhart

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