Utopia Avenue : a novel / David Mitchell.
2020
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Title
Utopia Avenue : a novel / David Mitchell.
Imprint
New York : Random House, [2020]
Description
1 online resource (vi, 575 pages)
Summary
"Soho, London, 1967. Folk-rock-psychedelic quartet Utopia Avenue is formed. Guitarist Jasper de Zoet, a shy, half-Dutch public-school musical prodigy, was hearing voices long before he dropped acid. Keyboardist Elf Holloway must defy the prejudices of her bank manager father, her housewife mother, and her age to forge her own career. Bassist Dean Moss cannot, will not, spend his life on the factory floor like everyone else in Gravesend. Band manager Levon Frankland--gay, Jewish, and Canadian--is not unduly burdened by conscience. The drummer is a drummer. Over two years and two albums, Utopia Avenue navigates the dark end of the Sixties: its parties, drugs and egos, political change and personal tragedy; and the trials of life as a working band in London, the provinces, European capitals and, finally, the promised land of America. What is art? What is fame? What is music? How can the whole be more than the sum of its parts? Can idealism change the world? How does your youth shape your life? This is the story of Utopia Avenue. Not everyone lives to the end"-- Provided by publisher.
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"Published in the United Kingdom by Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton, London." -- Title page verso.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (EbscoHost, viewed on September 21, 2020).
Available in Other Form
Print version: Mitchell, David (David Stephen). Utopia Avenue First edition. New York : Random House, [2020]
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Language
English
ISBN
0812997441 electronic book
9780812997446 (electronic book)
9780812997439 hardcover
9780812997446 (electronic book)
9780812997439 hardcover
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