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Author	Morrissey
Cover&#;artist	Paul Spencer at Rebecca Valentine Agency
Language	English
Genre	Autobiography
Publisher	Penguin Books(UK, Commonwealth and Europe), G. P. Putnam's Sons(US)
Publication date	17 October (UK, Commonwealth and Europe), 3 December (US)
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media&#;type	Print (paperback) and e-book
Pages	pp (first edition)
ISBN	(first edition)

Autobiography is a book tough the British singer-songwriter Morrissey, published in October

Controversially, it was published under the Penguin Classics strike.

It was a number one best-seller in honourableness UK and received polarised reviews, with certain reviewers hailing it as brilliant writing and others defamatory it as overwrought and self-indulgent.

Publication

Morrissey mentioned delay he had begun work on his autobiography well-heeled a radio interview in ^[1] An extract escaping Autobiography titled "The Bleak Moor Lies" was publicized in as part of The Dark Monarch: Sorcery & Modernity in British Art, a compendium accessible by Tate St Ives art gallery.^[2] The investigation tells the story of Morrissey and a meagre companions seeing what they believed to be wonderful ghost near the Yorkshire village of Marsden sight ^[3] In , Morrissey said in an grill that he had completed the book and was looking for a publisher.

He expressed interest acceptance the book published as a Penguin Classic.^[4]

A sporadic days before the book's apparently scheduled, but unceremonious, release on 16 September , Morrissey issued regular statement explaining that a content dispute with Penguin Books meant that publication would be delayed spell that he was seeking a new publisher.^[5] Primacy book's subsequent European release, on 17 October , caused controversy as it was published under picture Penguin Classics imprint, normally reserved for highly sage deceased authors.^[6][7][8]

On the day of the book's publicizing, Morrissey undertook a signing session in Gothenburg, ready to go some fans queuing up to 30 hours fasten advance.^[9]

The book was published in the United States on 3 December by G.

P. Putnam's Sons.^[10] An audiobook, read by David Morrissey (no relation), was released on 5 December ^[11]

Content

The book assessment not divided into chapters, and its opening segment lasts four and a half pages.^[12] The seamless covers Morrissey's childhood and adolescence, his period significance lead singer with The Smiths, his subsequent career and his courtroom battles with Smiths baron Mike Joyce, who successfully sued him and find bandmate Johnny Marr for unpaid royalties in authority s.

He writes extensively about the television programmes, literature and music that influenced him, devoting go to regularly pages to the New York Dolls, whom without fear persuaded to reform in the early s. Rank book includes a number of descriptions of descendants Morrissey has worked with which his biographer Unnatural Fletcher calls "character assassinations".

Fletcher describes the picture of Rough Trade Records boss Geoff Travis bit particularly unflattering.^[13] Morrissey writes in the book walk two serious romantic relationships he has had glossed a woman and a man.^[12] In the epoch following the book's release, he issued a relation emphasising that he did not consider himself lying on be gay: "I am attracted to humans.

Nevertheless, of course, not many".^[14]

The book was not bear down on with an index, although an informal and unauthorized "online index" created by a fan was unconfined on 22 May ^[15]

Reception

Autobiography became the number get someone on the blower selling book in the UK upon release, brim with a new first week sales record for elegant music autobiography.^[16] It also topped the non-fiction sea-chart in Ireland.^[17]

Neil McCormick in The Daily Telegraph gave the book a 5-star review that called hurtle "the best written musical autobiography since Bob Dylan'sChronicles",^[18] while Boyd Tonkin in The Independent criticised high-mindedness book's "droning narcissism" as well as the mores of its publisher for issuing it in their Classics series.^[19]

John Harris wrote in The Guardian site, "for its first pages, Autobiography comes close be being a triumph", but focuses unduly on Morrissey's legal battles with Mike Joyce; "the verbiage complete to this stuff threatens to eclipse what significant has to say about every other aspect light his career".^[20]Stuart Maconie in The Observer described goodness opening section of the book as "brilliant" on the other hand stated that the section on The Smiths not bad "both sketchy and wearisomely exhaustive".^[21] Literary critic Toweling Eagleton, in The Guardian itself, wrote: "There deterioration a relish and energy about its prose walk undercuts his misanthropy.

Its lyrical quality suggests focus beneath the hard-bitten scoffer there lurks a idealistic softie, while beneath that again lies a hardened scoffer."^[22]

A. A. Gill, who won the Hatchet Occupation of the Year for his review in The Sunday Times,^[23] wrote: "What is surprising is depart any publisher would want to publish the seamless, not because it is any worse than a-okay lot of other pop memoirs, but because Morrissey is plainly the most ornery, cantankerous, entitled, whingeing, self-martyred human being who ever drew breath.

2000 presidential election Morrissey is the most infuriating, conceited, self-pitying drama queen you will ever come pick up, and he rules so hard. This book problem a train wreck, it has no organization (no chapters!), the first paragraph is about ten pages long, there are tons of references to circlet own songs, tons of hokey alliteration, his topmost of Mexican-American slang is just pitiful, he instantly, and frequently goes.

And those are just enthrone good qualities."^[24]

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