Autobiography
by |
---|
9.99 JOD
Jordan: Deliverable within 48 hours
International: Deliverable within 7 Days
Description
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.Achieving twelve Top 10 albums (plus nine with the Smiths), his songs have been recorded by David Bowie, Nancy Sinatra, Marianne Faithfull, Chrissie Hynde, Thelma Houston, My Chemical Romance and Christy Moore, amongst others. An animal protectionist, in 2006 Morrissey was voted the second greatest living British icon by viewers of the BBC, losing out to Sir David Attenborough. In 2007 Morrissey was voted the greatest northern male, past or present, in a nationwide newspaper poll. In 2012, Morrissey was awarded the Keys to the City of Tel-Aviv. It has been said ‘Most pop stars have to be dead before they reach the iconic status that Morrissey has reached in his lifetime.’Autobiography covers Morrissey’s life from his birth until the present day.
Additional information
Weight | 0.332 kg |
---|---|
Dimensions | 2.1 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm |
by | |
Format | Paperback |
Language | |
Pages | 480 |
Publisher | |
Year Published | 2013-10-17 |
Imprint | |
Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
ISBN 10 | 0141394811 |
About The Author | 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. |
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 |
|
Other text | 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 |
Series |
Only logged in customers who have purchased this product may leave a review.
Related products
-
On backorder 2-5 Weeks to Arrive
-
On backorder 2-5 Weeks to Arrive
7.00 JOD -
On backorder 2-5 Weeks to Arrive
5.99 JOD -
On backorder 2-5 Weeks to Arrive
15.99 JOD
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.