Product Details
- Publisher: Vintage Canada (2021-05-04)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 592 pages
- ISBN-13: 9780345809827
- Item Weight: 413.91 grams
- Dimensions: 7.98 x 5.21 x 1.25 cm
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the internationally bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas.
Utopia Avenue may be the most extraordinary British band you've never heard of. Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967, and fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss and guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet, Utopia Avenue embarked on a meteoric journey from the seedy clubs of Soho, a TV debut on Top of the Pops, the cusp of chart success, glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome and a fateful American sojourn in the Chelsea Hotel, Laurel Canyon, and San Francisco during the autumn of '68.
David Mitchell's kaleidoscopic novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue's turbulent life and times; of fame's Faustian pact and stardom's wobbly ladder; of the families we choose and the ones we don't; of voices in the head, and the truths and lies they whisper; of music, madness and idealism. Can we really change the world, or does the world change us?
About the Author
DAVID MITCHELL is the award-winning and bestselling author of Slade House, The Bone Clocks, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet, Black Swan Green, Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream, and Ghostwritten. Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME magazine. With KA Yoshida, Mitchell translated from the Japanese Naoki Higashida's internationally bestselling memoir The Reason I Jump. He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.
