Autobiography

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 – Neil McCormick * 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 – Alex Niven * Independent *
Sharply written, rich, clever, rancorous, puffed-up, tender, catty, windy, poetic, and frequently very, very funny. Welcome back, Morrissey – Michael Bonner * Uncut Magazine *
Rancorous, rhapsodic, schizophrenic: Autobiography delivers a man in full – Andrew Male * 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 – Colin Paterson * 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 *

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.

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