Timoleon Vieta Come Home : A Sentimental Journey

by Rhodes, Dan

• ISBN13: 9780156029957
• ISBN10: 0156029952
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-08-01
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Summary

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 Biography

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.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: TIMOLEON VIETA
Timoleon Vieta	3	(2)
Cockroft	5	(6)
The Bosnian	11	(8)
Tools	19	(8)
Fight	27	(14)
Silver Shorts	41	(6)
Ugly Women	47	(10)
Frostbite	57	(10)
Bored	67	(12)
Dumped	79	(16)
PART TWO: TIMOLEON VIETA COME HOME
Abbondio	95	(8)
Teg	103	(18)
Something Chinese	121	(22)
Giuseppe, Or Leonardo da Vinci	143	(26)
Dusty	169	(24)
Henri	193	(22)
Timbo	215