Joe Moss answers “If I'm new to Mitchell, should I start...”

Jeremy Anderson asked this question about Utopia Avenue:

If I'm new to Mitchell, should I start with this book or something else?

Joe Moss I would start with "Ghostwritten", his first novel. That's usually a good place to start. It sets the scene for Mitchell's style and his concerns and …moreI would start with "Ghostwritten", his first novel. That's usually a good place to start. It sets the scene for Mitchell's style and his concerns and is the way into his "universe".

Utopia Avenue is a stand-alone novel and can be read as such but it does feed off the rest of the author's work and you will definitely miss quite a number of references from earlier novels/characters if you read this first. (less)

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