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Morrissey’s First Novel ‘List of the Lost’ Is a Bizarre, Misogynistic Ramble

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The writing is laughably clunky, the characters thinly drawn, the style stilted. But what’s worst about the ex-Smiths frontman’s List of the Lost is its repulsive treatment of women.

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LONDON — In fairness, Penguin has printed a health warning on the back cover.

“Beware the novelist…intimate and indiscreet… pompous, prophetic airs,” reads the quote from Morrissey.

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