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Utopia Avenue: A Novel de David Mitchell
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Utopia Avenue: A Novel (edição: 2020)

de David Mitchell (Autor)

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"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"--… (mais)
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Título:Utopia Avenue: A Novel
Autores:David Mitchell (Autor)
Informação:Random House (2020), 592 pages
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Utopia Avenue de David Mitchell

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Frustrating very good book - because on one hand you would struggle to criticise anything out of the ordinary model of mid sixties london music revolution… On the other how is that even possible if this isn’t a carefully orchestrated narration that slithers across the clichés of the time.

Its very well writ… but I ask myself why am I reading this? And feel slightly alien when I try to get to an answer. ( )
  yates9 | Feb 28, 2024 |
My first book by Mitchell. Fun and engaging. Mitchell’s style reminded me of Pynchon in its playfulness. The subject matter is catnip for me so it will be interesting to see how much I take to Mitchell’s previous novels. Cloud Atlas seems like a good next choice. ( )
  monicaberger | Jan 22, 2024 |
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This a book I really wanted to like, but a quarter of the way through, after forcing myself to read it, I gave up. Between unlikable characters, a boring plot, and dull writing, it wasn't worth my time. Of course, there is always a chance that it improves, but life is too short to read dull books.
  TheDivineOomba | Jan 20, 2024 |
summing up a decade like the 1960s, in music and societal change, is a pretty ambitious project. and dropping into that a conclusion to a long and timeslippy book series like David Mitchell's Horologists, which began life set around the much earlier Dutch East India Company, is a dicey proposition, pulled off mostly by backgrounding that ending so the mainframe 1960s stuff doesn't get ploughed under along the way. the story centers around a fictional band called Utopia Avenue, and it works largely by making the band members live so vividly that as a reader you want them all so badly to survive and grow. it's beautifully written, like all of David Mitchell's work, and it's a work worth cherishing, for the time, the places, and the characters, while marvelling at how closely the author manages to capture the chaos, the aspirations, and the mad creativity of that time. ( )
  macha | Nov 24, 2023 |
this is my daisy jones and the six ( )
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"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"--

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