Overview
One of Esquireās best books of spring 2022
An extended meditation on late style and last works from āone of our greatest living criticsā (Kathryn Schulz, New York).
How and when do artists and athletes know that their careers are coming to an end? What if the end comes early in a writerās life? How to keep going even as the ability to do so diminishes? In this ingeniously structured investigation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last works of writers, painters, musicians, and sports stars whoāve mattered to him throughout his life. With playful charm and penetrating intelligence, he considers Friedrich Nietzscheās breakdown in Turin, Bob Dylanās reinventions of old songs, J.M.W. Turnerās proto-abstract paintings of blazing light, Jean Rhysās late-life resurgence, and John Coltraneās final works.
Ranging from Burning Man to Beethoven, from Eve Babitz to William Basinski, and from Annie Dillard to Giorgio de Chirico, Dyerās study of last things is also a book about how to go on living with art and beautyāand the sudden rejuvenation offered by books, films, and music discovered late in life. Praised by Kathryn Schulz as āone of our greatest living critics, not of the arts but of life itself,ā and by Tom Bissell as āperhaps the most bafflingly great writer at work in the English language today,ā Dyer has now blended criticism, memoir, and badinage of the most serious kind into something entirely new. The Last Days of Roger Federer is a summation of Dyerās passions and the perfect introduction to his sly and joyous work.
This book title, The Last Days of Roger Federer (And Other Endings) - 9781250867193, ISBN: 9781250867193, by Geoff Dyer, published by Picador (May 2, 2023) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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