AA Gill's Morrissey Autobiography review wins “Hatchet Job of the Year” award

Morrissey’s recent Autobiography may have topped best-selling charts worldwide, but not everyone was so kind about the former Smiths frontman’s memoirs. Sunday Times critic AA Gill called it a “cacophony of jangling, misheard and misused words”, winning a ”Hatchet Job of the Year” award for said scathing piece.

The Omnivore website pitted the review at the top of their shortlist, calling the article the “angriest, funniest, most trenchant book review” of the past twelve months.

Gill goes on to describe the book as a “Pooterishly embarrassing piece of intellectual social climbing” and “humiliation constructed by the self-regard of its victim”.

You can read the full review here.

[via The Guardian]