EAN: 9781444799439

UTOPIA AVENUE - DAVID MITCHELL KARTONIERT (TB)

'A stand-out triumph' - The Sunday TimesThe 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).Utopia Avenue might be the most curious British band you've never
heard of.Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967  folksinger Elf Holloway  blues
bassist Dean Moss  guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet and jazz drummer Griff Griffin together
created a unique sound  with lyrics that captured their turbulent lives and times. The band
produced only two albums in two years  yet their musical legacy lives on.This is the story of
the band's brief  blazing journey from Soho clubs and draughty ballrooms to the promised land
of America  just when the Summer of Love was receding into something much darker - a
multi-faceted tale of dreams  drugs  love  sexuality  madness and grief  of stardom's wobbly
ladder and fame's Faustian pact  and of the collision between youthful idealism and jaded
reality as the Sixties drew to a close.Above all  this bewitching novel celebrates the power of
music to connect across divides  define an era and thrill the soul.David Mitchell's seven
novels include Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. He has been shortlisted twice for the Booker
Prize and lives in Ireland.

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