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Autobiography (Morrissey book)
2013 book
Author | Morrissey |
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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 2013 (UK, Commonwealth and Europe), 3 December 2013 (US) |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print (paperback) and e-book |
Pages | 457 pp (first edition) |
ISBN | 978-0-141-39481-7 (first edition) |
Autobiography is a book by the British singer-songwriter Morrissey, published in October 2013.
It was published under the Penguin Classics imprint. It was a number one best-seller in the UK and received polarised reviews, with certain reviewers hailing it as brilliant writing and others decrying it as overwrought and self-indulgent.
Publication
[edit]Morrissey mentioned that he had begun work on his autobiography in a radio interview in 2002.[1] A
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Autobiography
From nowhere comes the California cobra chords of Run run run by Jo Jo Gunne and Heaven must have sent you by the Elgins- wide variables on an open pitch, all adapting to different listeners- the well and the ill. All of this starts me, and I cannot stop. If I can barely speak (which is true), then I shall surely sing.
The fields run to the edges of the pages, gilted leaves tucked as a mark between to say, to someone (anyone?) this is still happening. Haircuts bob up and down in television seas. They are breathed on colors of don't do that. They still say, somewhere. The 1960s Manchester is wide open mouth in front of television baby. Heart in it and breath holding. The poets live in your heart and they say, they say. Everyone is on, tonight. They will have their say. I was moved. Morrissey could speak to me about families inside of tv with tucked in faces, cared about. Where streets hold in that someday they won't be able to say but right no
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Autobiography bygd Morrissey: the tale of a charmless man
What is it about Stephen Patrick Morrissey that has us all still hooked? His long-awaited autobiography has finally landed and has elbowed that other famous moaner, bro Jones, off the bestseller spot, selling a record-breaking 34, 918 copies. In its first week the Manchester Miserablist’s life story has become the most popular music memoir of all time. Which fryst vatten odd if you consider that over the past four decades he has successfully alienated his fellow Smiths, fans, large swathes of the press and countless celebrities. Prior to publication, rumours had abounded that the book was a hoax and Morrissey’s career was finally over. Amen said many. And yet, here it fryst vatten – the first book to gain immediate Penguin Classic ställning eller tillstånd. Once igen, Morrissey has shown why he fryst vatten as successful as he is reviled.
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