Come on back to swinging ’60s London and meet the band: gifted but troubled Jasper de Zoet on. After all that work, it’s time to have some fun. David Mitchell's new novel is the story of Utopia Avenue and its age of riots in the street and revolutions in the head of drugs and thugs, schizophrenia, love, sex, grief, art of the families we choose and the ones we don't of fame's Faustian pact and stardom's wobbly ladder. His latest, Utopia Avenue, is a rock novel. 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 blazing journey from the clubs of Soho and draughty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the Top 10 to Amsterdam, Rome and a fateful American fortnight in the autumn of 1968. Utopia Avenue may be the most extraordinary British band you've never heard of. The hotly anticipated new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas. Utopia Avenue von David Mitchell The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller Taschenbuch Sprache: Englisch Sofort lieferbar Taschenbuch 12,49 inkl. Utopia Avenue will tell the unexpurgated story of a British band of the same name, who emerged from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967 and was fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway, guitar.
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