Publication

2020-07-14 - Random House

Word Count

148,000 words, Guess

Page Count

592 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100812997433
  • ISBN-139780812997439
  • Library of Congress Control Number2020002647
  • OCLC Control Number1139026384
  • Better World Books9780812997439
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Classifications

  • LCCPR6063.I785 U86 2020

Description

**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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  • Utopia Avenue: A NovelHardcoverRandom House2020-07-14
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