Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different decades.
Five stars. With typical pretension, Morrissey's first book has
been published as a Penguin Classic. It justifies such presentation
with a beautifully measured prose style that combines a lilting,
poetic turn of phrase and acute quality of observation, revelling
in a kind of morbid glee at life's injustice with arch, understated
humour ... It is recognisably the voice of the most distinctive
British pop lyricist of his era
*Daily Telegraph*
A brilliant and timely book ... What is so refreshing about
Morrissey's Autobiography is its very messiness, its deliriously
florid, overblown prose style, its unwillingness to kowtow to a
culture of literary formula and commercial pigeon-holing ...
Autobiography is a true baggy monster, a book in which a
distinctive prose style is allowed to develop ... A rococo triumph
... Overwhelmingly this is a book to be thankful for ... In the
ways that matter, Autobiography reads like a work of genuine
literary class
*Independent*
Sharply written, rich, clever, rancorous, puffed-up, tender, catty,
windy, poetic, and frequently very, very funny. Welcome back,
Morrissey
*Uncut Magazine*
Rancorous, rhapsodic, schizophrenic: Autobiography delivers a man
in full
*Mojo*
If one is willing to accept that a Morrissey book could be a
classic, then the book justifies its status remarkably early on.
... As a work of prose Autobiography is a triumph of the written
word
*Louder than war*
Funnier than the Iliad ... A triumph
*Today Programme, BBC Radio 4*
One of the autobiographies of this or any year ... A wonderfully
entertaining read. He's as witty, acerbic and opinionated as you'd
expect, but there's a welcome self-awareness throughout that makes
the dramatic flourishes and hyperbolic dismay all the more
hilarious. He may have more flaws than Manchester's Arndale Centre
but he's just brilliantly, uniquely Morrissey
*Daily Mirror*
Morrissey's Autobiography is brilliant and relentless. Genius,
really
*Douglas Coupland*
Well, so far Morrissey's book is an absolute masterpiece; no doubt
the whole stinking country will hate it.
*Frankie Boyle*
This is the best book ever. Like ever
*Wonderland*
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