Query: novels about music and mental health
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
Utopia Avenue
Norwegian Wood (novel)
A Clockwork Orange (novel)
Glamorama
Evidence from documents: Utopia Avenue: The novel tells the story of the fictional 1960s British psychedelic rock band Utopia Avenue.
Norwegian Wood (novel): about music: 'Noruwei no Mori'', is the standard Japanese translation of the title of the Beatles song "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)". This song is often described in the novel, and is the favorite song of the character Naoko. ''Mori'' in the Japanese title translates into English as "wood" in the sense of "forest"
and mental health: Naoko's older sister took her own life at age 17, which, along with Kizuki's suicide, has a lasting effect on Naoko's emotional stability and she resides in a psychiatric institution for most of the story
novels: a 1987 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami.
Glamorama: novels about music: In parody of how people now think in modern terms, Ellis "annoyingly" lists "the songs that are playing in the background, or even quoting them, as he does with Oasis' "Champagne Supernova"; in effect, the novel is provided with a movie soundtrack.
and mental health: As much as celebrity itself, our collective celebrity worship becomes the real target of Ellis' satire", writes the ''Star Tribune''. Models in the novel act as a synecdoche of the larger culture. Reviewer Eric Hanson writes, "Their models' selfishness and brutality, he implies, are simply an extreme manifestation of what consumer culture encourages in everyone." Victor's own pursuit of being cool or too hip "destroys him"