Timoleon vieta come home

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A succinct, perfect, acerbic little book, its also done a good job of offending. A sentimental journey, on librarything librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers home groups talk zeitgeist. Timoleon vieta plays an important but fleeting role in the lives of many people as he makes his way home after being abandoned. It is the fourth book by dan rhodes that ive read and so i was expecting an odd book. How will the stranger affect the bond between dog and master. Rattling around his dilapidated farmhouse in the italian countryside, his only constant source of company is the everloyal timoleon vieta, a mongrel with the most beautiful eyes. I picked up gold because a friend had given me a copy of timileon vieta come home. Timoleon vieta come home, by dan rhodes the independent. Dan rhodess first novel, timoleon vieta come home, is part shaggy dog tale, part fairy.

Timoleon vieta come home by dan rhodes books the guardian. Heres a list of some of the other honours he has received. About dan rhodess novel timoleon vieta come home, many readers will only need to know this much. Its a question looming in timoleon vieta come home by dan rhodes, an author who deservedly was selected as on of grantas best young british writers. Timoleon vieta is the boon companion of cockroft, an expat ageing queen and disgraced composer drowning his sorrows in the umbrian hills. A russian adulteress might throw herself in front of a train.

Timoleon vieta come home is a freewheelin take on the lassie legend, deeply moving and hysterically funny. Timoleon vieta come home by dan rhodes paperback, 2004 for. It was rhodes first novel, and won the 2003 authors club first novel award. And a homosexual with a fondness for gadflys might take liberties with the affection of his beloved dog.

Rhodess tale has its amusing moments, but its sabotaged by inexcusable amounts of redundancy and padding, by the promiscuous deployment of characters and motifs that disappear and reappear quite. Tossed out, the object of affection tries to scamper back. Dan rhodes was born in 1972 and is the author of two acclaimed short story collections. Rhodes clearly has a firm grasp of passionate misunderstandings and hopeless undertakings. A recent pick for granta magazines list of the top 20 young british novelists, dan rhodes has made a leap from his. Timoleon vieta come home by dan rhodes overdrive rakuten.

A sentimental journey by dan rhodes 214pp, canongate. Many people have reacted strongly to the ending, but i believe rhodes did the right thing and the this book is just as charming, and odd, and macabre as ive come to expect from rhodes. Cockroft, a faded composer and socialite, lives in selfimposed exile and fantasizes of true love and extravagant suicides. Set in contemporary italy and focusing on an extraordinary love triangle between two men and a. Chorlton chapters book club book choice for july 2010. Timoleon violeta timoleon vieta was the finest breed of dog. The first half of timoleon vieta come home shows how cockcrofts peaceful life with his dog is disrupted when a tall young man, known only as the bosnian, comes to stay indefinitely.

Dan rhodes, author of timoleon vieta come home, has been recognised as one of britains most talented young novelists. His decision seems perfectly sincere, even though he hasnt yet shrugged off his writerly habits. The remainder of the story crisscrosses among revelations of cockrofts scandalplagued past and of the bosnians true ethnicity and identity both actually rather neat surprises and the adventures of timoleon vieta on the prowl, complete with backstories for the several people the dog encounters during an instinctive journey. Cockroft a lover of animals, though with a bad history in owning dogs, cannot resist his eyes and so keeps him and spoils him rotten and the two become the perfect.

Cockroft a lover of animals, though with a bad history in owning dogs, cannot resist his eyes and so keeps him and spoils him rotten and the two become the perfect companions. Buy timoleon vieta come home main by rhodes, dan isbn. Timoleon vieta come home by dan rhodes starcrossed lovers might drink a dram of poison. A sentimental journey 1st edition 1st printing hardcover new york canongate pub ltd 2003 very good in a very good dust jacket. Hes living an idyllic existence in the italian countryside with cockroft, a. He abandons timoleon outside romes colosseum, where.

Jan 23, 2010 timoleon vieta is the best friend, quite literally, of the composer cockroft after he appears at the window of his italian villa one day. The book, hailed by many critics as a provocative and dark comedy in which, as coxon put it, a strong vein of humor. The guardian called him the best new writer in britain. Timoleon vieta come home by dan rhodes is available in. Until, that is, the mysterious and malevolent bosnian comes to stay. Timoleon vieta come home resembles italo calvinos difficult loves and alberto moravias the voice of the sea, and thats saying something. Books by dan rhodes authors like dan rhodes what should i. Timoleon vieta, and a procession of exceptionally fickle boyfriends.

Soon thereafter, however, publication of his first novel, timoleon vieta come home. Passages like that prove theres nothing misanthropic about rhodes prose, but he cant let sentiment linger. Timoleon vieta is the best friend, quite literally, of the composer cockroft after he appears at the window of his italian villa one day. The selfconscious preening, superior airs and inbred neuroses of the pedigree were not for him.

You may know dan rhodes name from grantas twenty best young british writers 2003, an honor resting on two shortstory collections and what was then the upcoming novel timoleon vieta, which, by the way, is anything but sentimental. A sentimental journey by dan rhodes 2003, hardcover at the best online prices at ebay. A sentimental journey, landed him on grantas best young british novelists list, and rhodes abandoned his plan to abandon his writing career. When a handsome but surly individual arrives on the scene, cockroft is forced to choose between his dog and this new arrival. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. An anomalous blend of humor, heartfelt emotion, and oldfashioned storytelling verve. Dan rhodes born 1972 is an english writer, possibly best known for the novel timoleon vieta come home 2003, a subversion of the popular lassie come home movie. Mar 29, 2003 the first half of timoleon vieta come home shows how cockcrofts peaceful life with his dog is disrupted when a tall young man, known only as the bosnian, comes to stay indefinitely. Dan rhodes leaves stephanie merritt smiling with his canine fairytale, timoleon vieta come home.

Apr 09, 2003 timoleon violeta timoleon vieta was the finest breed of dog. Timoleon vieta come home is a book with few qualms, and all the better for this lack, though it wont appeal to everyone, or even many. The author refers to the book as a sentimental journey, but i suspect irony, as it is anything but. Praise for timoleon vieta come home a quite thoroughly original debut. Or put another way, what would you do to avoid being alone. Timoleon vieta come home by dan rhodes paperback, 2004. Timoleon vieta come home by dan rhodes, paperback barnes. Timoleon vieta come home isbn 9781847675620 pdf epub dan.

He is also the author of anthropology 2000, a collection of 101 stories, each consisting of exactly 101 words. Click on a title, author name or category to see similar books. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Apr 03, 2003 timoleon vieta plays an important but fleeting role in the lives of many people as he makes his way home after being abandoned. Although cockroft proclaims his love for the loyal timoleon vieta and spoils him rotten, he misses the.

The second half of the book, in ironic homage to lassie comehome, narrates the dogs return by sketching the life stories of those he. Dan rhodes from the best new writer in britain the guardian comes a first novel of captivating originality. Timoleon vieta come home isbn 9781847675620 pdf epub. A sentimental journey 2003 is a novel by british author dan rhodes, a parody of the classic lassie come home film. Hes living an idyllic existence in the italian countryside with cockroft, a composer in exile. Before this, his first novel, dan rhodes had already published more than 100 short stories though you.