Utopia avenue david mitchell review7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() 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.ĭavid 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. ![]() 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 Utopia Avenue is the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. ![]() NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Making your way through this novel feels like riding a high-end convertible down Hollywood Boulevard.”. Mitchell’s prose is suppler and richer than ever. When Mitchell’s bigger mythos suddenly Kool-Aid Manned its way into the book, I, a veteran of Slade.
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