Utopia Avenue Book Cover

Utopia avenue is a 2020 novel by david mitchell it is his eighth published novel and his first since slade house 2015.

Utopia avenue book cover. The usual stuff of rock dramas the ego clashes the drugs the hangers on and record company parasites is all there but mitchell who wasn t born when utopia avenue s putative first album was released knows exactly which real life musicians to seed into the story. Utopia avenue s got all the sex drugs and broken dreams you want in a rock novel plus guest appearances by jagger jerry janis and jim morrison the philadelphia inquirer mitchell continues to use the rhythms of surface reality to dig much deeper but without ever losing the beat. Utopia avenue is a psychedelic folk rock band attempting to make a mark on the music scene of the late sixties. Its members jasper elf dean and griff are thrown together by manager levon frankland a canadian whose furtive and complicated love life is a little reminiscent of beatles manager brian epstein s.

D avid mitchell s eighth novel utopia avenue arrives both as a distinct and distinctive book and as a further chapter in the ongoing metanovel that constitutes his work to date at first. The novel tells the story of the fictional 1960s british rock band utopia avenue. On a dark day in 1967 when the novel opens dean moss a bass. One of the many delights of utopia avenue is seeing the cosmic dust of genius swirling in chaos before the stars are formed.

The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of cloud atlas and the bone clocks one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this or any country independent. It was published by sceptre on july 14 2020. But in the case of utopia avenue his latest novel music is stitched into the very fabric of the story. And inevitably so for the novel is set smack bang in late 60s london when it resounded.

In a psychedelic moment toward the end of david mitchell s new novel utopia avenue which is about the birth rise and demise of a british rock band in the 1960s the long and lurid. Utopia avenue are the strangest british band you ve never heard of.