num_pages: 224
description: Cockroft, a faded composer and socialite, lives in self-imposed exile and fantasies about true love and extravagant suicides. Rattling about his dilapidated farmhouse in the Italian countryside, subsisting on a trickle of royalties from past successes, his only constant source of company is the ever loyal Timoleon Vieta - a mongrel with the most beautiful eyes.However, when a handsome but surly individual - known only as the Bosnian - arrives unexpectedly, the strong bond between Cockroft and Timoleon Vieta is put under strain.
language: English
title: Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey
titlecomplete: Timoleon Vieta Come Home: A Sentimental Journey
genres: Fiction, Animals, Italy, Dark, LGBT, Novels, Contemporary, Dogs, Literary Fiction, Gay
ratings_count: 1202
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Authors' Club Best First Novel Award
publisher: Canongate U.S.