Utopia Avenue

Reviews

"[A] slice of paradise . . . Utopia Avenue is, page by page, a sheer pleasure to read. Mitchell’s prose is suppler and richer than ever, and his ability to conjure a historical milieu he never actually experienced does not falter. . . . Making your way through this novel feels like riding a high-end convertible down Hollywood Boulevard on the prettiest day of the year while luminaries wave to you from the sidewalks.” —Slate

“Mitchell’s rich imaginative stews bubble with history and drama, and this time the flavour is a blend of Carnaby Street and Chateau Marmont.” —The Washington Post

“Now, more than ever, it seems vital to examine the various ways that our lives are densely interconnected rather than isolated and separate. Utopia Avenue brilliantly explores this theme.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

“Mitchell superbly conveys the energy and spirit of the age. . . . [Utopia Avenue] is a supremely readable novel. . . . The book is most alive and most compelling when Mitchell slips the surly bonds of the realist premise and lands in his own extraordinary imagined worlds.” —The Guardian

“Captivating . . . [A] deep and textured classic-rock tale . . . Mitchell marvelously brings it all to life by focusing his most engaging storytelling on each band member’s own evolution, along with some experimental narrative and exceptional in-concert scenes. . . . Utopia Avenue is a fun and fulfilling read. . . . [A] rock ‘n’ roll road trip whose characters and narrative become the song that gets stuck in your head.” —USA Today

“Expect prose that’s as electric as the music.” —Kirkus Reviews

"Mitchell's magical, much anticipated latest is a rollicking, rapturous tale of 1960s rock 'n' roll . . . delivering more fun, more mischief, and more heart than ever before. This is Mitchell at his best." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Praise for David Mitchell

“To open a Mitchell book is to set forth on an adventure.” —The Boston Globe

“Mitchell is, clearly, a genius. He writes as though at the helm of some perpetual dream machine, [and] can evidently do anything.” —The New York Times Book Review

“A genre-bending, time-leaping, world-traveling, puzzle-making, literary magician.” —Esquire

“No writer alive seems to be having as much fun as Mitchell.” —The Globe and Mail

“If David Mitchell isn’t the most talented novelist of his generation, is there any doubt that he is the most multi-talented?” —The Atlantic

“[David Mitchell is] prodigiously daring and imaginative. . . . As in the works of Thomas Pynchon and Herman Melville, one feels the roof of the narrative lifted off and oneself in thrall.” —Time

“Astonishing, moving effortlessly from elegant genre fiction to satire to high-end literary pyrotechnics. . . . Prodigiously skilled and gloriously ambitious.” —Toronto Star

 “Entertaining and thrilling.” —NPR Expand reviews