EAN: 9781444799477

DAVID MITCHELL - GEBRAUCHT UTOPIA AVENUE THE NU...

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).  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 times. The band produced only two albums in two years  yet their
musical legacy lives on.  This is the story of Utopia Avenue'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.

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