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The Last Days Of Roger Federer: and Other Endings
[Hardback - 2022]
geoff dyer
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Publisher: Canongate Uk | ISBN: 9781838855741 | Pages: 304
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Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain Daily Telegraph

Much attention has been paid to so-called late style - but what about last style? When does last begin? How early is late? When does the end set in?

In this endlessly stimulating investigation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last achievements of writers, painters, athletes and musicians who ve mattered to him throughout his life. With a playful charm and penetrating intelligence, he examines Friedrich Nietzsche s breakdown in Turin, Bob Dylan s reinventions of old songs, J.M.W. Turner s paintings of abstracted light, John Coltrane s cosmic melodies, Jean Rhys s return from the dead (while still alive) and Beethoven s final quartets - and considers the intensifications and modifications of experience that come when an ending is within sight. Oh, and there s stuff about Roger Federer and tennis too.

This book on last things - written while life as we know it seemed to be coming to an end - is also about how to go on living with art and beauty, on the entrancing effect and sudden illumination that an Art Pepper solo or an Annie Dillard reflection can engender in even the most jaded sensibilities. Blending criticism, memoir and repartee into something entirely new, The Last Days of Roger Federer is a summation of Dyer s passions and the perfect introduction to his sly and joyous work.

About the Author

Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Deathin Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography s 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ s Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and was a finalist in 1998. In 2015 he received a Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages. He currently lives in Los Angeles where he is Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California.

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