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    THE WORLD OF WRITING

    Aug 06, 2020 4 minutes

    HIGH CONCEPT

    f genre-busting experimental novelist David Mitchell were a musical genre, he’d be a psychedelic prog rock band. The author’s creative flights of fantasy, replete with repeating riffs and dizzying prose that twists the timespace continuum, would be perfectly at home as a threepart concept album. So it makes sense that his recently published eighth novel, , sets the controls for the heart of the sun to tell the story of an experimental psychedelic prog rock band in heady, hallucinatory 1967. Writing about music is a challenge that has stumped many fiction writers but there couldn’t be a more apt prog-rock noodler of a novelist to convey the signs of that particular time. Characters from real-life Swinging London swing

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