![]() After graduating from Kent University, he taught English in Japan, where he wrote his first novel, GHOSTWRITTEN. Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967, and fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss and guitar virtuoso Jasper de Zoet, Utopia Avenue embarked on a meteoric journey from the seedy clubs of Soho, a TV debut on Top of the Pops, the cusp of chart success, glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome, and a fateful American sojourn in the Chelsea Hotel, Laurel Canyon, and San Francisco during the autumn of '68.ĭavid Mitchell's kaleidoscopic novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue's turbulent life and times of fame's Faustian pact and stardom's wobbly ladder of the families we choose and the ones we don't of voices in the head, and the truths and lies they whisper of music, madness, and idealism. Born in 1969, David Mitchell grew up in Worcestershire. Utopia Avenue is the strangest British band you've never heard of. The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. Mitchell born just after the band Utopia. ![]() Utopia Avenue: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller David Mitchell € 26.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 3-5 working days. David Mitchell was born in Southport, Merseyside, in England, raised in Malvern, Worcestershire, and educated at the University of Kent, studying for a degree in English and American Literature followed by an M.A. No you don't, because Utopia Avenue is the title of David Mitchell's new novel about the rise of a psychedelic Sixties band that never was. ![]()
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