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"Aging homosexual Cockcroft lives with his mongrel dog Timoleon Vieta, who has the most beautiful eyes, in splendid isolation in the Umbrian countryside in Italy, reminiscing about the boy in silver shorts who used to go out with him. One day in walks the malevolent ‘Bosnian' who Timoleon Vieta takes an instant dislike to.
The Bosnian does odd jobs around the house until Wednesday evening when it is time to pay his rent in sexual favours, a joke that Cockcroft had made countless times but never expected anyone to take him up on. When Timoleon Vieta bites the Bosnian's hand the Bosnian makes an ultimatum to Cockcroft, one of them has to go. Blind drunk Cockcroft agrees to let Timoleon Vieta go and they drive into Rome to dump the dog by the Colliseum.
In the second part of the book we meet all the people that Timoleon Vieta encounters on his way back to the farmhouse. There is a Welsh girl who is being two-timed by her Italian lover. A Chinese orphan who is horrible to her step-father. A studious deaf girl who takes up with the local delinquent thus re-enacting an age old village folklore. But she dumps the delinquent and he tries to commit suicide. A girl Rosa who has learning difficulties and occasionally smiles which her father has yet to see. And a disfigured Cambodian girl who stares at Timoleon's image in a photo her beautiful married sister has taken on her trip to Italy. Timoleon finally staggers back to the farmhouse to have one final encounter with the Bosnian and Cockcroft is reunited with the boy in silver shorts.
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John Marcel, Resident Scholar
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Plot
Tone of book?
- humorous
Time/era of story
- present (2000-2010)
Romance/Romance Problems
Yes
Animal story
Yes
Kind of animal:
- dog
Kind of sex:
- two guys doing it
Is this an adult or child's book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Taboo sex story?
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Age:
- 60's-90's
Ethnicity/Nationality
- British
How sensitive is this character?
- soggy whimpering jelly muffin
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- quite fatty
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Profession/status:
- thief/con artist
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- an average amount
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- bulging muscles
Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings?
- 5 ()
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Italy
Style
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- explicit references to deaths
Sex in book?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- actual description of hetero sex
- male homosexuals doing their thing
Amount of dialog
- significantly more descript than dialog
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