Utopia Avenue Book Cover

The spectacular new novel from the bestselling author of cloud atlas and the bone clocks one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this or any country independent.

Utopia avenue book cover. But in the case of utopia avenue his latest novel music is stitched into the very fabric of the story. One of the many delights of utopia avenue is seeing the cosmic dust of genius swirling in chaos before the stars are formed. Its members jasper elf dean and griff are thrown together by manager levon frankland a canadian whose furtive and complicated love life is a little reminiscent of beatles manager brian epstein s. Utopia avenue is a 2020 novel by david mitchell it is his eighth published novel and his first since slade house 2015.

The novel tells the story of the fictional 1960s british rock band utopia avenue. In a psychedelic moment toward the end of david mitchell s new novel utopia avenue which is about the birth rise and demise of a british rock band in the 1960s the long and lurid. On a dark day in 1967 when the novel opens dean moss a bass. It was published by sceptre on july 14 2020.

Utopia avenue are the strangest british band you ve never heard of. Exclusive edition contains an exclusive essay by david mitchell called dancing about architecture a standard edition is available here. Utopia avenue is a psychedelic folk rock band attempting to make a mark on the music scene of the late sixties. Utopia avenue emerges from the london music scene as a ragtag band of f mitchell s magical much anticipated latest after slade house is a rollicking rapturous tale of 1960s rock n roll.

And inevitably so for the novel is set smack bang in late 60s london when it resounded. D avid mitchell s eighth novel utopia avenue arrives both as a distinct and distinctive book and as a further chapter in the ongoing metanovel that constitutes his work to date at first.