{"product_id":"utopia-avenue-by-david-mitchell","title":"Utopia Avenue  By: David Mitchell","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA love letter to music, London, and the electric possibility of a life fully lived.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of \u003cem\u003eCloud Atlas\u003c\/em\u003e comes \u003cem\u003eUtopia Avenue\u003c\/em\u003e — a dazzling, immersive novel set in the heart of the 1960s London music scene. David Mitchell conjures a fictional band of the same name, tracing their meteoric rise from smoky Soho folk clubs to the stages of San Francisco, weaving together four unforgettable voices into a story about art, ambition, madness, and the fleeting magic of a moment in time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeet the band: Elf Holloway, the classically trained pianist with a gift for melody and a complicated heart; Jasper de Zoet, the enigmatic Dutch guitarist haunted by something he can't name; Dean Moss, the bass player from a working-class Gravesend family chasing a way out; and Peter Griffin, the drummer holding it all together. Together, they are Utopia Avenue — and for one brief, blazing season, they are everything.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat makes this novel extraordinary:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA richly imagined portrait of 1960s London, Amsterdam, and San Francisco at their most alive\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCameos from real icons of the era — Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones, and more\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFour deeply drawn characters, each with their own chapter-length perspective\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMitchell's signature interconnected storytelling, linking to his wider fictional universe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA meditation on creativity, mental illness, fame, and what it means to make something beautiful\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eLush, propulsive, and deeply human, \u003cem\u003eUtopia Avenue\u003c\/em\u003e reads like the best album you've ever heard — each track distinct, the whole greater than the sum of its parts. For anyone who has ever lost themselves in a song and wondered what it cost the person who wrote it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePerfect for:\u003c\/strong\u003e fans of David Mitchell, music lovers, readers of literary fiction, and anyone captivated by the mythology of the 1960s.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52095263211813,"sku":null,"price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/3696\/6045\/files\/Utopia_Avenue_Book.png?v=1773939285","url":"https:\/\/moonsrecords.com\/products\/utopia-avenue-by-david-mitchell","provider":"Moon's Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}