Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


The Swining Sixties

Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell

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Yeah, I made a typo, but it’s staying. London, 1967. Bass player Dean Moss is flat-out broke, homeless, and ready to give up on his dreams and head back home to find some dreary menial job for the rest of his life, when he meets a music producer named Levon. Levon hasn’t had much luck so far and this is his last stab at success, so he sets Dean up with folk singer and pianist Elf (short for Elizabeth Frances), drummer Griff and guitarist Jasper. […]

Dean hurries past the Phoenix Theatre, dodges a blind man in dark glass, steps onto Charing Cross Road to overtake a slow-moving woman and pram, leaps a grimy puddle, and swerves onto Denmark Street where he skids on a sheet of black ice.

Utopia Avenue by David Mitchell

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The new David Mitchell novel (Cloud Atlas, The Bone Clocks, Black Swan Green) that came out this summer. The novels begins in the mid 1960s in London as Dean Moss, a talented by hapless bass guitarist, has been kicked out of his apartment and out of his band. As he looks for a place to live, some money, and a gig, he meets Levon, a Canadian music manager, who convinces him to come to a show to see a guitarist. As the evening unfolds it […]



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