num_pages: 574
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 youve never heard of. Emerging from Londons 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 Mitchells 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 dont; of fames Faustian pact and stardoms wobbly ladder. Can we change the world in turbulent times or does the world change us?
language: English
title: Utopia Avenue
publisher: Random House