![]() ![]() ![]() a celebratory page-turner.' - Ben Masters, The Literary Review Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton ISBN: 9781444799477 Number of pages: 576 Weight: 400 g Dimensions: 196 x 128 x 46 mm MEDIA REVIEWS Can we change the world in turbulent times, or does the world change us? Utopia means 'nowhere' but could a shinier world be within grasp, if only we had a map? ![]() 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 and blazing journey from the clubs of Soho and draughty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the cusp of chart success, to glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome and a fateful American fortnight in the autumn of 1968.ĭavid Mitchell's new novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue of riots in the streets and revolutions in the head of drugs, thugs, madness, love, sex, death, art of the families we choose and the ones we don't of fame's Faustian pact and stardom's wobbly ladder. Utopia Avenue are the strangest British band you've never heard of. 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). ![]()
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