Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey
Rhodes, Dan
ISBN 10: 0156029952 ISBN 13: 9780156029957
Published by Houghton Mifflin, 2004
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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.
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Title: Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental ...
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
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