Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey

Rhodes, Dan: Dan Rhodes

ISBN 10: 0156029952 / ISBN 13: 9780156029957

Published by Harvest Books/ Harcourt, Inc., Orlando, Austin, New York, et al., 2004

About this Item

226 pp. Flawless copy.

Seller Inventory # 1iBi0046

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey
• Publisher: Harvest Books/ Harcourt, Inc., Orlando, Austin, New York, et al.
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0156029952
• ISBN 13: 9780156029957
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Pentagram (Cover Design); Vien Thuc (Cover Illustration)
• Edition: 1st Harvest Ed. 2004
• Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction-Fictional Novel, Literary Fiction & Novel

About this title

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.

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.