Utopia Avenue - David Mitchell
Category: History
Tags: History, Historical Fiction
Utopia Avenue are the strangest British band youve never heard of. Emerging from Londons 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 and blazing journey from the clubs of Soho and draughty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the cusp of chart success, to glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome and a fateful American fortnight in the autumn of 1968., David Mitchells 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 dont; of fames Faustian pact and stardoms wobbly ladder. Can we change the world in turbulent times, or does the world change us? Utopia means nowhere but could a shinier world be within grasp, if only we had a map?
