![]() ![]() Frankland introduces Dean to savant and neuro-atypical guitarist Jasper De Zoet and Yorkshire drummer Peter ‘Griff’ Griffin, and not much later he brings the three of them together with folk singer and pianist Elf Holloway. A chance meeting with an up and coming American impresario Levon Frankland (for those paying attention, a character who turns up much later in life in The Bone Clocks), changes his life. It is 1967, bass guitarist Dean Moss is scammed out of his last few pounds, evicted from his squalid lodgings and is on the verge of having to sell his bass guitar. ![]() Utopia Avenue, Mitchell’s latest, is definitely part of the Mitchell-verse, but also tells a fairly self-contained story set in around the music scene of late 1960s London. Characters drift in and out of the different narratives and there is grand, overarching meta-tale that involves a kind of battle between good and evil, sometimes going on in the background and sometimes in the foreground. ![]() What regular readers of Mitchell’s works will know is that all of these, and his other novels, are connected. But his works are more diverse than this and include the memoire-like Black Swan Green and the historical (but no less metaphysical) The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet. David Mitchell is best known for his time-spanning and globetrotting novels with a metaphysical and speculative edge Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. ![]()
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