David Mitchell's new novel is the story of Utopia Avenue and its age of riots in the street and revolutions in the head of drugs and thugs, schizophrenia, love, sex, grief, art of the families we choose and the ones we don't of fame's Faustian pact and stardom's wobbly ladder.
Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967 and fronted by folksinger Elf Holloway, guitar demigod Jasper de Zoet and blues bassist Dean Moss, Utopia Avenue released only two LPs during its brief blazing journey from the clubs of Soho and draughty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the Top 10 to Amsterdam, Rome and a fateful American fortnight in the autumn of 1968. David Mitchells kaleidoscopic novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia.
Utopia Avenue may be the most extraordinary British band you've never heard of. New York Times Book Review Editors Choice - Mitchells rich imaginative. Mitchell utilizes Luisa’s later spunky personality to show her in this novel risking her life and forced to hide in an upstate cabin from some gangsters she’d exposed. Emerging from Londons psychedelic scene in 1967, folksinger Elf. The hotly anticipated new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas. Utopia Avenue, for instance, is the story of an eponymous 60s British rock band, while 2010s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet is set entirely in the. In Utopia Avenue we meet her in 1967-68 when she is beginning her journalistic career. Utopia Avenue might be the most curious British band youve never heard of.
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