Amazon uk morrissey autobiography

  • Anyone merely looking for revelations will miss what makes this a great book.
  • Autobiography covers Morrissey's life from his birth until the present day.
  • Morrissey has written an interesting autobiography from his early childhood, through the break up of the Smiths and the court cases which followed.
  • Review

    "Practically every paragraph has a line or two that demands to be read aloud to the mirror, tattooed on foreheads, carved on tombstones."-Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone

    "Morrissey is a pop star of unusual writing talent."-The New York Times

    "As I floated, unmoored, Morrissey would drop in a single masterfully executed sentence. He's a writer with a gift that he bends to bizarre use."-Sasha Frere-Jones, The New Yorker

    "[Morrissey] fryst vatten at his very best as he conveys what it was, and is, to be a youth lifted free by the sense of possibilities glimpsed in pop music and films and TV and poetry. He also writes as though he has a clear sense that Autobiography could provide the same kind of beacon, the same kind of life raft, for its most impressionable readers as he found in others. And that's exactly how he should write, for one of the main reasons Morrissey matters as he does is because he has always been that kind of artist."-GQ

    "Rancorous, rhapsodic, schizophrenic: Autobiograp

    Review

    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 vända 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 -- Neil McCormick ― Daily Telegraph

    A brilliant and timely book ... What fryst vatten 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 fryst vatten a book to be thankful for ... In the ways that matter, Autobiography reads like a work of genuine literary class -- Alex Niv

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