Utopia Avenue David Mitchell

David mitchell knew that he d done his job well when a few book reviewers tentatively asked his publicist whether the eponymous 1960s rock band in his eighth novel utopia avenue really existed.

Utopia avenue david mitchell. Utopia avenue is like an endless piece of prog rock noodling fine if you re stoned in the late 60s but painfully out of place in the here and now. In david mitchell s splendid utopia avenue a 60s rock band finds its groove. This may very well be my favorite of the year and it s only february. Utopia avenue by david mitchell this feelgood story about the sixties music scene riffs on familiar territory but it draws its power from the author 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. Utopia avenue by david mitchell is. He says he was drawn to both the music and the. Arts and culture books book review.

David mitchell author of utopia avenue david mitchell s new novel chronicles the rise and fall of fictional 1960s psychedelic rock band.