![]() Occasionally, the dialogue seemed artificial and implausibly articulate and elegant, draining life from the characters and reducing them to ink on the page. ![]() Mitchell artfully differentiates characters through thought patterns and vocabularies, so no two characters are too similar when reading from their perspectives. The drummer Peter “Griff” Griffin and the band’s Canadian manager Levon Frankland also offer narrative perspective once each in the novel. Mitchell tells most of the story from three major perspectives: brusque bassist Dean Moss, eccentric Dutch-English guitarist Jasper de Zoet, and pianist Elf Holloway, who is coming to terms with her sexuality. Utopia Avenue is the name of the book’s eponymous band, and the story follows them through their rise to stardom in 1967 London. He’s known for fusing realism with fantasy and for often having main characters from one book appear in others as minor characters. Mitchell is a British author well-known for best-selling books such as The Bone Clocks (2014) and Cloud Atlas (2004), which was later adapted into a 2012 movie of the same name. While an enjoyable, and well-written read, it is a rather inconsequential book compared to the majority of Mitchell’s writing. ![]() Utopia Avenue, David Mitchell’s latest book, was released on July 14. ![]()
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