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The Unfinished Harauld Hughes

by Richard Ayoade

Faber & Faber2024ISBN 9780571339181

1 of 2 critics positive

3 reviews: 1 positive, 1 pan; 1 not stating a verdict in public

What the critics said

Positive
“offers a hilarious parody of the 1960s film world”

Richard Ayoade’s biography of a bad writer is completely fake

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Pan
“it’s utterly tedious”

Richard Ayoade’s novel is meant to be funny – but it’s utterly tedious

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Verdict not stated
“comic novel or conceptual art project?”

The Unfinished Harauld Hughes by Richard Ayoade review – comic novel or conceptual art project?

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