Putnam publishedMorrissey’s AUTOBIOGRAPHYin the US on Tuesday.
“[H]is way with words [is] wonderfully lush. Sideways skids into topics like animal cruelty feel pulsating and alive, especially when his gallows humor lifts the mood. It's those glimpses of light in the darkness that makeAUTOBIOGRAPHYspry, and they reflect Morrissey's greatest gift as a frontman: Even when he's spewing bile, his poetic raconteur's soul keeps him lovable.”A –Entertainment Weekly
“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] is 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.”–GQ
“Rancorous, rhapsodic, schizophrenic: AUTOBIOGRAPHY delivers a man in full”–Andrew Male,Mojo