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An edition of Utopia Avenue (2020)

Utopia Avenue

Third edition
  • 3.40 ·
  • 5 Ratings
  • 23 Want to read
  • 0 Currently reading
  • 7 Have read

Het weergaloze verhaal over de opkomst en ondergang van een Britse rockband, nu in prachtige paperback

Utopia Avenue was hot en happening in 1967-1968. Het was de eigenzinnigste band ever, al heb je er nog nooit van gehoord. In de psychedelische dampen van Londen spinnen folkzangeres Elf Holloway, gitaarvirtuoos Jasper de Zoet, bluesbassist Dean en jazzdrummer Griff, een op vele vlakken onwaarschijnlijk viertal, goud uit hun muzikale samenwerking. Ruige tochten langs achterafzaaltjes, seks, drugs en roem in Soho, nieuwe drank en oude demonen, ups en downs: alles levert stof voor de songs op hun enige twee elpees. Spektakel in Amsterdam, opsluiting in Rome en onvoorzien gevaar in Amerika: dat de band een enerverend bestaan leidt is nog zwak uitgedrukt.

Dit boek volgt Utopia Avenues reis door hemel en hel, langs straatrellen en hersenrevoltes, onwerkelijke trips en werkelijk tuig, de kunst van het songschrijven en harde levenslessen, langs de familie die we kiezen en die we meekrijgen, naar een pact met de duivel, en de wankele ladder van het succes. Kunnen wij de wereld veranderen, of verandert zij ons? Utopia betekent ‘nergens’ maar zouden we een betere wereld kunnen bereiken als we wisten waar die lag?

In de pers

‘Verdraaid aanstekelijk verteld.’ Trouw

‘Een fijn boek over popmuziek, psychedelica en allerlei intermenselijk gedoe.’ NRC Handelsblad

‘Utopia Avenue, een heerlijke, van enthousiasme druipende, overvolle, bontgekleurde, overstuurde, komische, ontroerende, tedere, historische én futuristische, klassieke én fantasy­roman.’ * de Volkskrant

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Publisher
J.M. Meulenhoff
Language
Dutch
Pages
672

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Utopia Avenue
Jun 09, 2022, Random House
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Utopia Avenue
May 2022, J.M. Meulenhoff
Paperback in Dutch - Third edition
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Utopia Avenue
23-07-2021, J. M. Meulenhoff
Audiobook in Dutch
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Utopia Avenue
2021, Hodder & Stoughton
in English
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Utopia Avenue: A Novel
May 04, 2021, Random House Trade Paperbacks
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Utopia Avenue: A Novel
2020, Random House Publishing Group
in English
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Utopia Avenue: A Novel
Jul 14, 2020, Random House Audio
audio cd
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Utopia Avenue: A Novel
Jul 14, 2020, Random House Large Print
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Utopia Avenue
2020, J. M. Meulenhoff
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Utopia Avenue
2020, Hodder & Stoughton
in English
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Utopia Avenue: The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller
Sep 24, 2020, Sceptre
audio cd
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Utopia Avenue: A Novel
Jul 14, 2020, Random House
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Utopia Avenue
25-09-2020, J.M. Meulenhoff
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Utopia Avenue
2020, Hodder & Stoughton, Sceptre
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Edition Notes

Published in
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Translation Of
Utopia Avenue

Contributors

Translator
Harm Damsma
Translator
Niek Miedema

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Number of pages
672
Dimensions
23.2 x 15.2 x 5.6 centimeters
Weight
984 grams

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL40229484M
ISBN 13
9789029095037

Work Description

The long-awaited new novel from the bestselling, prize-winning author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks.

Utopia Avenue is the strangest British band you’ve never heard of. Emerging from London’s psychedelic scene in 1967 and fronted by folk singer Elf Holloway, guitar demigod Jasper de Zoet, and blues bassist Dean Moss, Utopia Avenue released only two LPs during its brief, blazing journey from the clubs of Soho and drafty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the cusp of chart success, and on to glory in Amsterdam, prison in Rome, and a fateful American fortnight in the autumn of 1968.

David Mitchell’s captivating new novel tells the unexpurgated story of Utopia Avenue; of riots in the streets and revolutions in the head; of drugs, thugs, madness, love, sex, death, art; of the families we choose and the ones we don’t; of fame’s Faustian pact and stardom’s wobbly ladder. Can we change the world in turbulent times, or does the world change us?

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