![]() Oh, there are a couple of winking references to Cloud. There’s no time-hopping, apart from a brief epilogue set in the present, or elegant experiments in genre-busting in Mitchell’s latest novel, his first since Slade House (2015). He lives in Ireland with his wife and two children.įind other novels by David Mitchell on Art In Fiction. Noted novelist Mitchell returns with a gritty, richly detailed fable from rock’s golden age. With KA Yoshida, Mitchell translated from the Japanese Naoki Higashida's internationally bestselling memoir The Reason I Jump. ![]() Twice shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Mitchell was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by TIME magazine. ![]() He writes as though at the helm of some perpetual dream machine, can evidently do anything.” - The New York Times Book Reviewĭavid 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. Coming out of 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 just two albums 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 two weeks in America in the autumn of 1968.ĭavid Mitchell's novel is the story of Utopia Avenue and its era of riots and revolutions of drugs and thugs, schizophrenia, love, sex, grief, art of the families we choose and those we don't of fame's Faustian pact and stardom's shaky ladder. ![]() Utopia Avenue may be the most unusual British band you've never heard of. Listed in the Music category on Art In Fiction, Utopia Avenue (2020) is a literary novel by internationally bestselling author David Mitchell. ![]()
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