{"product_id":"list-of-the-lost-by-morrissey","title":"'List of the Lost' by Morrissey","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"34\" data-end=\"587\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eMorrissey's first novel arrived beneath an impossible weight of expectation.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"34\" data-end=\"587\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eBetter known as the singular lyricist behind The Smiths and a decades-long solo career, his move into fiction was met with immediate derision, largely because of its famously florid prose. Lost beneath the mockery, however, is a novel that is far stranger than its reputation suggests: an eccentric, theatrical meditation on youth, desire, mortality and failure, written with complete indifference to prevailing ideas of what contemporary literary fiction ought to sound like.\u003cspan aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"589\" data-end=\"1235\"\u003eSet around a 1970s relay team whose lives become entangled with violence, grief and obsession, \u003cem data-start=\"684\" data-end=\"702\"\u003eList of the Lost\u003c\/em\u003e reads less like realist fiction than an extended Morrissey lyric—melodramatic, romantic, self-conscious and occasionally absurd. Its sentences swing wildly between startling beauty and outright excess, making it one of those rare novels that remains genuinely divisive. Whether approached as a curiosity, a cult object, or an experiment in carrying a songwriter's voice into long-form fiction, it continues to reward readers willing to meet it on its own peculiar terms rather than those searching for conventional narrative polish.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1262\" data-end=\"1327\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst Australian Penguin paperback edition, first printing, 2015. Very good condition with light shelf wear and minor handling marks. Binding is firm and the pages remain clean throughout.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45813008400467,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-07-12T160412.037.png?v=1783914135","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/list-of-the-lost-by-morrissey","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}