Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Tragicomic Literary Dark Comedy About a Dog's Journey, Loyalty, and Betrayal - Softcover

Rhodes, Dan

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9780156029957: Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Tragicomic Literary Dark Comedy About a Dog's Journey, Loyalty, and Betrayal
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0156029952 ISBN 13: 9780156029957
Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2004

Synopsis

Cockroft, a faded composer and socialite, lives in self-imposed exile and fantasizes of true love and extravagant suicides. Rattling around his dilapidated farmhouse in the Italian countryside, his only constant source of company is the ever-loyal Timoleon Vieta, a mongrel with the most beautiful eyes. When a handsome but surly individual arrives on the scene, Cockroft is forced to choose between his dog and this new arrival. He abandons Timoleon outside Rome's Colosseum, where the dog begins the long journey home.
In this acclaimed novel, Dan Rhodes, one of Granta's Best Young British Novelists, has created a tragicomic work of macabre beauty that both amuses and moves in equal measure.

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About the Author

Dan Rhodes is the author of the short-story collections Anthropology: And a Hundred Other Stories and Don't Tell Me the Truth about Love. Rhodes lives in Kent, England.

From the Back Cover

"The best new writer in Britain." -The Guardian (London)


Rattling around his dilapidated farmhouse in the Italian countryside, faded composer and socialite Cockroft has only one constant companion: Timoleon Vieta, a loyal mongrel with the most beautiful eyes. But when a handsome but surly individual arrives on the scene, Cockroft is forced to choose between his dog and the new arrival. He abandons Timoleon outside Rome's Colosseum, where the dog begins a long journey home.

Winner of the Quality Paperback Book Club New Voices Award

"A blend of humor, heartfelt emotion, and old-fashioned storytelling verve." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Book Review

"Rhodes demonstrates his ability to spin an engaging tale time and again."
--The New Yorker

"Charged with honesty, biting irony, and humor." --Time Out New York

Dan Rhodes was born in 1972 and is the author of two acclaimed short story collections. Timoleon Vieta Come Home is his first novel. Rhodes lives in Kent, England.


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Publisher
Harper Perennial
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0156029952
ISBN 13 
9780156029957
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
226
Rating
  • 3.54 out of 5 stars
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