Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey (Paperback)

from Boekenbeestje

A book about the dark side of life and love, very well written. Once I started in it I didn't put it down until I'd finished it. Rhodes has a way of creating a world where you want to linger a bit longer after the book ends. The stories of the people who the dog Timoleon Vieta meets on his journe...

from gaskella

This is the story of a mongrel dog with the 'saddest eyes in the world'. One day a stray dog turns up at retired British composer Cockcroft's Italian villa. The dog has beautiful eyes and Cockcroft is very happy to gain a new companion, for he has been lonely since his last lover left. Soon man a...

from nesah

A brilliant piece, well though out interlinking stories of various colourful characters. A very easy, but stimulating read, probably not suitable for younger teenagers as there are some events concerning sexual acts, though they are not lewd or in detail.

from pgmcc

"Timoelon Vieta Come Home" is about love, but more about loss, tragedy and abandonment associated with love. While the cover blurb states the story is about a dog, the dog's story is only one amongst many, and the dog's story is merely the string to hang all the various characters and their tales...

from bigbaddom

Timoleon Vieta Come Home is a lightly comic tale of an elderley man's love, loneliness and pet dog, set in the Umbrian countryside. The author skirts around sentimentality admirably, especially in the final third, and leaves us wanting more of the scrappy mongrel with the beautiful eyes