Utopia Avenue - ComeLibros Club

592 pages

English language

Published 2020 by Random House Publishing Group.

ISBN:: 978-0-8129-9744-6

(1 review)

The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks.

Utopia Avenue is the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967 and fronted by folk singer 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 drafty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the cusp of chart success, and on to glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome, and a fateful American fortnight in the autumn of 1968.

David Mitchell’s captivating 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. Can we …

The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks.

Utopia Avenue is the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967 and fronted by folk singer 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 drafty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the cusp of chart success, and on to glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome, and a fateful American fortnight in the autumn of 1968.

David Mitchell’s captivating 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. Can we change the world in turbulent times, or does the world change us?

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Review of 'Utopia Avenue' on 'Goodreads'

4 stars

David Mitchell es de esos autores con los que me lanzo a ciegas, aunque a priori el tema de la novela no me entusiasme como ocurre con Utopia Avenue y como me pasó en su día con [b:Mil otoños|12868570|Mil otoños|David Mitchell|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1318545636l/12868570.SY75.jpg|7405757]. Porque Mitchell siempre acierta. Me engancha de una manera brutal y el "un capítulo más" se acaba convirtiendo en mañanas somnolientas, ojeras de panda y papeles garabateados con conexiones con sus otras novelas (esto último sólo para flipad@s como yo

Subjects

Fiction, science fiction, general
Fiction, dystopian
Musicians, fiction