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Utopia Avenue

Autor: David Mitchell

Número de Páginas: 859

«Como viejo rockero, tengo que decir que me encantó la nueva novela de David Mitchell sobre el florecimiento del rock and roll británico a mediados y finales de los sesenta. Es un éxito en mi lista Billboard ». Stephen King Un viaje a la revolución sexual y musical del Londres de los años sesenta a través de la historia de una banda inolvidable. En 1967, cuatro músicos se unen para crear un sonido único. Nacida en la escena psicodélica londinense, Utopia Avenue es la banda británica que, con solo dos álbumes y una breve pero deslumbrante trayectoria, consigue capturar la esencia de una época turbulenta. Encabezada por la cantante de folk Elf Holloway, y con el bajista Dean Moss, el virtuoso de la guitarra Jasper de Zoet y el batería de jazz Griff Griffin, Utopia Avenue se embarca en un viaje meteorítico para dejar un legado musical eterno: desde sus inicios en los sórdidos clubes del Soho y su debut televisivo en Top of the Pops hasta la cúspide de su éxito y su agitada gira por un Estados Unidos en pleno apogeo de la contracultura y las protestas por la guerra de Vietnam. Utopia Avenue muestra un vívido y brillante retrato del ocaso de los años sesenta a...

Utopia Avenue

Autor: David Mitchell

Número de Páginas: 0

Utopia Avenue

Autor: David Mitchell

Número de Páginas: 0

Utopia Avenue

Autor: David Mitchell

Número de Páginas: 610

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the internationally bestselling author of The Bone Clocks and Cloud Atlas. Utopia Avenue may be the most extraordinary British band you've never heard of. Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967 and fronted by folksinger Elf Holloway, guitar demigod Jasper de Zoet and blues bassist Dean Moss, Utopia Avenue released only two LPs during its brief blazing journey from the clubs of Soho and draughty ballrooms to Top of the Pops and the Top 10; to Amsterdam, Rome and a fateful American fortnight in the autumn of 1968. David Mitchell's new novel is the story of Utopia Avenue and its age; of riots in the street and revolutions in the head; of drugs and thugs, schizophrenia, love, sex, grief, art; of the families we choose and the ones we don't; of fame's Faustian pact and stardom's wobbly ladder. Do we change the world or does the world change us? Utopia means 'nowhere' but might it be somewhere, if only we knew how to look?

Utopia Avenue

Autor: David Mitchell

Número de Páginas: 720

Utopia Avenue

Autor: David Mitchell

Número de Páginas: 555

'ONE OF THE MOST BRILLIANTLY INVENTIVE WRITERS OF THIS, OR ANY, COUNTRY' INDEPENDENT The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller 'Wildly entertaining' SPECTATOR 'A stand-out triumph' SUNDAY TIMES 'Superb' LITERARY REVIEW 'Impressive' NEW YORKER 'Highly entertaining' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT A story of music and dreams, drugs and madness, love and grief, from the acclaimed author of Cloud Atlas The year is 1967 and word is spreading about a new band on London's psychedelic scene - an unlikely combination of a female folksinger, a blues bassist, a jazz drummer and an electric guitarist. Strangers to each other and from widely different backgrounds, together they create magic. Meet Utopia Avenue. This is the story of a unique band's brief, blazing journey from Soho dives to chart success and on to the promised land of America, just when the Summer of Love was giving way to something much darker - a tale of dreams, drugs, sexuality, madness and grief, and of fame's pitfalls. Capturing a time when youthful idealism collided with jaded reality, this bewitching novel celebrates the power of music to connect across divides, define an era and thrill the soul. PRAISE FOR DAVID MITCHELL 'A...

Genre Bending

Autor: Jeremy Rosen

Número de Páginas: 446

Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaimed and ambitious writers of literary fiction have increasingly gravitated to popular fiction genres. In this comprehensive account, Jeremy Rosen describes literary fiction's embrace of genre fiction's conceits as "genre bending" and argues that while literary writers adopt genres for a wide variety of purposes, what they share is a revitalized attitude toward genre—a recognition that while genres can be used in formulaic ways, they can also be adapted and transformed endlessly. Rosen reads across the outpouring of fiction of the last several decades by writers like Margaret Atwood, Michael Chabon, Jennifer Egan, Louise Erdrich, Kazuo Ishiguro, Chang-rae Lee, David Mitchell, Cormac McCarthy, Ian McEwan, Haruki Murakami, and Colson Whitehead. He finds that literary writers' embrace of popular genres is the product of several seemingly contradictory forces, including their attempt to extend a modernist-inspired project of formal experiment, to pursue high cultural prestige, and to preserve the distinctiveness of the literary, which they perceive to be under...

Radio's Legacy in Popular Culture

Autor: Martin Cooper

Número de Páginas: 265

Examining work by novelists, filmmakers, TV producers and songwriters, this book uncovers the manner in which the radio – and the act of listening – has been written about for the past 100 years. Ever since the first public wireless broadcasts, people have been writing about the radio: often negatively, sometimes full of praise, but always with an eye and an ear to explain and offer an opinion about what they think they have heard. Novelists including Graham Greene, Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh, and James Joyce wrote about characters listening to this new medium with mixtures of delight, frustration, and despair. Clint Eastwood frightened moviegoers half to death in Play Misty for Me, but Lou Reed's 'Rock & Roll' said listening to a New York station had saved Jenny's life. Frasier showed the urbane side of broadcasting, whilst Good Morning, Vietnam exploded from the cinema screen with a raw energy all of its own. Queen thought that all the audience heard was 'ga ga', even as The Buggles said video had killed the radio star and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers lamented 'The Last DJ'. This book explores the cultural fascination with radio; the act of listening as a cultural...

Storizen Magazine October 2019 | A Thriller Writer at Heart - Kanchana Banerjee

Autor: Saurabh Chawla , Pria Raiyani

Número de Páginas: 74

Communication is the key to forming, nurturing and maintaining healthy relationships. Owing to this thought, we had dedicated the theme for the month of October 2019 to 'Communication'. W want you all to communicate effectively and try to understand each other for the benefit of humankind. If you are a thriller lover, you will surely enjoy reading 'Nobody's Child' by Kanchana Banerjee who shares with us her love for the Thriller genre in an exclusive Cover Feature. Also, don't forget to check out our Editor's Choice article by Sumana Bhattacharya, 'The Art of Saying it Right'. We have got so much love and support from our readers, our contributors and our brand partners. Keep showering your love and blessings as it helps us to grow! Wishing you a very happy and blissful Diwali from the Storizen Family. Storizen Magazine October 2019 Issue is LIVE NOW! See Less