![]() ![]() Jasper, a descendant of the protagonist of The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet (2010), listens to a sextet composed in Cloud Atlas. Characters from his other books make appearances, like Levon Frankland from The Bone Clocks (2014), the band's surprisingly decent manager. Utopia Avenue is also part of the wider web that is Mitchell's metafictional "uber-novel". All three died in real life at the age of 27 between 19. It is a panoply of cameos from a who's who of music legends, a milieu where one could bump into John Lennon under a table at a party, flirt with Leonard Cohen in a Chelsea Hotel elevator or run into a yet-to-be-famous David Bowie in a stairwell, regaling strangers with his dreams.Ĭharacters hang out with Brian Jones, The Rolling Stones' founder, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. ![]() After a rocky start, they experience a meteoric rise to fame that culminates in an American tour before tragedy strikes.įor fans of the Sixties, this is not a novel to be missed. ![]()
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