So what kind of novel is it? Long–just short of 600 pages, but highly readable. This might serve as a warning not to treat Utopia Avenue as mainly realist with a small dose of fantasy largely confined to a later section of the novel, which is what most reviews have done. As readers we frequently wonder which world we are inhabiting, a reaction fostered by Mitchell. Utopia Avenue is widely described as a realist novel.
At the same time a number of reviewers have expressed reservations about his penchant for the supernatural and ask whether he has succumbed to a boyish fascination with benevolent and malevolent spirits at war with one another fighting with psychic weapons. He’s been called “clearly, a genius” ( New York Times Book Review), “a literary magician” ( Esquire), and “the most multi-talented. His large fan base has waited excitedly for his eighth novel, Utopia Avenue, just released. It is five years since David Mitchell released his last novel, Slade House (2015).
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