It’s a little hard to imagine but just plausible enough, especially in 1967 London.Įverybody knows the arc of this story: Four scrappy outsiders climb the ladder of fame to a sweet perch, from which they might just crash and burn. “Mix a shot of R&B with a glug of psychedelia, add a dash of folk and shake well,” one critic writes.
After all that work, it’s time to have some fun.Ĭome on back to swinging ’60s London and meet the band: gifted but troubled Jasper de Zoet on guitar, handsome Dean Moss from Gravesend on bass, jazzy Griff Griffin on drums and, holding her own behind the keyboards, Elf Holloway. His latest, “ Utopia Avenue,” is a rock novel. He’s done historical fiction set in 1800s Japan in “ The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet” delivered one short story in tweets and an additional story for a time capsule that will be opened in 2114 penned the British bildungsroman “ Black Swan Green” and a mystery/fantasy/eco-dystopia, “ The Bone Clocks,” which somehow managed to connect all his works into a single sprawling universe. Since then, the author best known for the brilliant, boundary-smashing novel “ Cloud Atlas” has proved that he can write just about anything. It was 20 years ago today (minus a couple of months) that David Mitchell’s first book, “ Ghostwritten,” was published in the U.S.
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