Timoleon Vieta Come Home

Timoleon Vieta Come Home

by Dan Rhodes (Author)

Synopsis

Meet the mongrel. Timoleon Vieta. A deeply loyal, undemanding and loving companion ...with the most beautiful eyes. He's living an idyllic existence in the Italian countryside with Cockroft, a composure in exile. Until, that is, the mysterious and malevolent 'Bosnian' comes to stay. How will the stranger affect the bond between dog and master? Timoloen Vieta Come Home is a deeply moving and hysterically funny free-wheelin' take on the Lassie legend.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 214
Edition: Main
Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 28 Feb 2004

ISBN 10: 1841954810
ISBN 13: 9781841954813

Media Reviews
A delight, a masterpiece of beautifully unforced comedy. * * Observer * *
By turns hilarious and heartrending. Rhodes is that real, rare thing - a natural storyteller. * * Sunday Times * *
Utterly captivating. * * Heat * *
This intelligent, bitter-sweet novel, exploring the relationship between an effete, expatriate socialite living in the Italian country-side with the eponymous Timoleon Vieta ('a mongrel with the most beautiful eyes'), should only serve to cement that reputation and confirm his early promise. I forsee this title being a spring sensation for Canongate, and it has already created a great deal of word-of-mouth excitement in the trade. -- Greg Eden, Bookseller
The best new writer in Britain. * * The Guardian * *
Very funny and very sharp with crushingly wicked moments. * * The Times * *
Author Bio
Dan Rhodes was born in 1972. He is the author of Anthropology, Timoleon Vieta Come Home and Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love, also published by Canongate. In 2003 he was named by Granta Magazine as one of their twenty Best of Young British Novelists. He lives in Edinburgh.