![]() ![]() ![]() Across the pond, the Summer of Love is breaking out. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.” The Rolling Stones are embracing bad-boy fame. The Beatles are the British gold standard and soon will release the counterculture-defining “Sgt. This novel is more grounded than Mitchell’s most fantastical work: The fictional band Utopia Avenue gets its shaky start in London’s rough-and-rowdy club circuit just as rock music is exploding with originality and creativity. ![]() A few pages later, Griff, recovering from a fatal automobile accident, is contemplating quitting the band - just as it’s going big time.Īnd so it goes, one captivating page after another, two steps forward and one backward, in this deep and textured classic-rock tale written by the imaginative (he has been called a “post-modern visionary”), best-selling English author whose acclaimed novels include the Booker Prize-shortlisted “Cloud Atlas” and “number9dream.”ĥ books not to miss: Colin Jost's 'Very Punchable Face,' David Mitchell's 'Utopia Avenue' ![]() Halfway through David Mitchell’s eighth novel, “Utopia Avenue” (Random House, 592 pp., ★★★★ out of four), which follows the adventures of an emerging ‘60s British rock band, one bloke pokes the band’s bummed-out drummer Griff: “Stardom’s getting stressful, is it?” Watch Video: 4 things to know about Trump's niece's tell-all-book ![]()
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