Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey

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.


Author: Dan Rhodes
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 09/01/2004
Pages: 226
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.48w x 0.62d
ISBN: 9780156029957

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 11/07/2004 pg. 30

About the Author
Rhodes, Dan: - 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.