by Dan Rhodes · Canongate Books Ltd · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781841953892
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«Timoleon Vieta Come Home» is the novel by Dan Rhodes, published by Canongate Books Ltd in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Cockroft, a retired composer in the Italian countryside, lives with Timoleon Vieta, a dog with a singular gaze. When a surly stranger enters their lives, Cockroft abandons the animal in Rome and it begins a journey home full of absurd encounters. A tragicomedy that reinterprets the Lassie legend with black humor and tenderness.
The work was recognized with the Authors' Club Best First Novel Award in 2003; its original subtitle is 'A Sentimental Journey'.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and stories with dogs, with black humor and a bittersweet tone; also used in reading clubs.
Dan Rhodes is an English writer known for the novel Timoleon Vieta Come Home (2003), a subversion of the popular Lassie Come Home movie. He is also the author of Anthropology (2000), a collection of 101 stories, each consisting of exactly 101 words. In 2010 he was awarded the E. M. Forster Award.
