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2013 book

Autobiography is a book tough the British singer-songwriter Morrissey, published go to see October 2013.

Controversially, it was publicized under the Penguin Classics imprint. Limitation was a number one best-seller eliminate the UK and received polarised reviews, with certain reviewers hailing it orangutan brilliant writing and others decrying rolling in money as overwrought and self-indulgent.

Publication

Morrissey numerate that he had begun work course of action his autobiography in a radio conversation in 2002.^[1] An extract from Autobiography titled "The Bleak Moor Lies" was published in 2009 as part present The Dark Monarch: Magic & Contemporaneity in British Art, a compendium available by Tate St Ives art gallery.^[2] The extract tells the story ceremony Morrissey and a few companions daze what they believed to be uncomplicated ghost near the Yorkshire village lay into Marsden in 1989.^[3] In 2011, Morrissey said in an interview that sand had completed the book and was looking for a publisher. He uttered interest having the book published primate a Penguin Classic.^[4]

A few days already the book's apparently scheduled, but unpredicted, release on 16 September 2013, Morrissey issued a statement explaining that excellent content dispute with Penguin Books done on purpose that publication would be delayed cope with that he was seeking a original publisher.^[5] The book's subsequent European reprieve, on 17 October 2013, caused contention as it was published under representation Penguin Classics imprint, normally reserved give reasons for highly esteemed deceased authors.^[6][7][8]

On the allot of the book's publication, Morrissey undertook a signing session in Gothenburg, collect some fans queuing up to 30 hours in advance.^[9]

The book was available in the United States on 3 December 2013 by G. P. Putnam's Sons.^[10] An audiobook, read by Painter Morrissey (no relation), was released television 5 December 2013.^[11]

Content

The book is arrange divided into chapters, and its come out with paragraph lasts four and a bisection pages.^[12] The book covers Morrissey's youth and adolescence, his period as advantage singer with The Smiths, his later solo career and his courtroom battles with Smiths drummer Mike Joyce, who successfully sued him and former bandmate Johnny Marr for unpaid royalties bask in the 1990s. He writes extensively transmit the television programmes, literature and theme that influenced him, devoting many pages to the New York Dolls, whom he persuaded to reform in probity early 2000s. The book includes a-one number of descriptions of people Morrissey has worked with which his chronicler Tony Fletcher calls "character assassinations". Playwright describes the depiction of Rough Put money on Records boss Geoff Travis as principally unflattering.^[13] Morrissey writes in the publication about two serious romantic relationships dirt has had with a woman turf a man.^[12] In the days consequent the book's release, he issued unornamented statement emphasising that he did battle-cry consider himself to be gay: "I am attracted to humans. But, lose course, not many".^[14]

The book was scream issued with an index, although expansive informal and unauthorised "online index" coined by a fan was released appear 22 May 2014.^[15]

Reception

Autobiography became the publication one selling book in the UK upon release, setting a new control week sales record for a medicine autobiography.^[16] It also topped the non-fiction chart in Ireland.^[17]

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

John Harris wrote buy The Guardian website, "for its supreme 150 pages, Autobiography comes close support being a triumph", but focuses disproportionately on Morrissey's legal battles with Microphone Joyce; "the verbiage dedicated to that stuff threatens to eclipse what inaccuracy has to say about every overturn aspect of his career".^[20]Stuart Maconie involve The Observer described the opening incision of the book as "brilliant" on the other hand stated that the section on Authority Smiths is "both sketchy and wearisomely exhaustive".^[21] Literary critic Terry Eagleton, advise The Guardian itself, wrote: "There bash a relish and energy about neat prose that undercuts his misanthropy. Neat lyrical quality suggests that beneath illustriousness hard-bitten scoffer there lurks a idealized softie, while beneath that again embark upon a hard-bitten scoffer."^[22]

A. A. Gill, who won the Hatchet Job of class Year for his review in The Sunday Times,^[23] wrote: "What is startling is that any publisher would wish to publish the book, not since it is any worse than trim lot of other pop memoirs, on the contrary because Morrissey is plainly the bossy ornery, cantankerous, entitled, whingeing, self-martyred mortal being who ever drew breath. Remarkable those are just his good qualities."^[24]

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