Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey - Brossura

Rhodes, Dan

 
9780156029957: Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey
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ISBN 10: 0156029952 ISBN 13: 9780156029957
Casa editrice: Houghton Mifflin, 2009

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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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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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"The best new writer in Britain." -The Guardian (London)


Rattling around his dilapidated farmhouse in the Italian countryside, faded composer and socialite Cockroft has only one constant companion: Timoleon Vieta, a loyal mongrel with the most beautiful eyes. But when a handsome but surly individual arrives on the scene, Cockroft is forced to choose between his dog and the new arrival. He abandons Timoleon outside Rome's Colosseum, where the dog begins a long journey home.

Winner of the Quality Paperback Book Club New Voices Award

"A blend of humor, heartfelt emotion, and old-fashioned storytelling verve." -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times Book Review

"Rhodes demonstrates his ability to spin an engaging tale time and again."
--The New Yorker

"Charged with honesty, biting irony, and humor." --Time Out New York

Dan Rhodes was born in 1972 and is the author of two acclaimed short story collections. Timoleon Vieta Come Home is his first novel. Rhodes lives in Kent, England.


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Editore
Houghton Mifflin
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0156029952
ISBN 13 
9780156029957
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
246
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
HarperCollins Publishers
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