We’ll never be miserable again now that Autobiography, the highly anticipated bio by Morrissey, is here. You know it’s an event when the first five copies out of the box are snapped up by booksellers. Autobiography is now available on our shelves and via bookpeople.com. Come join us in our happy haze.
“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
“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. He also writes as though he has a clear sense that Autobiography could provide the same kind of beacon, the same kind of life raft, for its most impressionable readers as he found in others. And that’s exactly how he should write, for one of the main reasons Morrissey matters as he does is because he has always been that kind of artist.”–GQ
Here’s a preview of what’s page one of the bio, courtesy of comedian Peter Serafinowicz:
BookPeople 
I’m not sure how i feel about it coming out immediately as a classic. Is Morrissey to be considered amongst the likes of Ocscar Wilde, Charles Dickens etc however well written his book is? And i’m saying this as a fan!
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It’s an interesting choice. Curious to see if this is the start of something new for Penguin, publishing new bios as “classics”.