![]() ![]() Each is from their own corner of the world, and the differences between them are ready places for cracks to form in the band’s facade. None of the musicians in Utopia Avenue emerge from a vacuum. Any band in London would want him ….Griff has the jazz circuit. “I need the others more than they need me, thinks Dean. While the band members of Utopia Avenue-bassist Dean, drummer Griff, guitarist Jasper, and pianist Elf-all are talented folks who seek success, Mitchell renders their disparate circumstances to portend that all sailing will not be smooth for the foursome. Mitchell’s story recounts the ascension of the eponymous band, which forms in 1967 when London-based manager Levon brings together four talented musicians of somewhat disparate styles to create a rock group to top the charts. ![]() With Utopia Avenue, Mitchell contributes a compelling if too-comfortable effort that boasts artful craftsmanship but lacks the inter-band electricity to make a rock novel soar. The release of a new novel by such as esteemed writer is rightfully treated as a major literary event, and that the title is also a rock novel makes it a major literary event to me, since I write and review rock novels. This level of attention to narrative is as one might expect from the author of the international bestseller Cloud Atlas. Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell feels like fine masonry, the British brick-and-mortar stuff from Dickens to Rowling that evokes the lived-in, comfortable, secure. ![]()
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