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The Last Days Of Roger Federer: And Other Endings

Author: Geoff Dyer.

The Last Days Of Roger Federer: And Other Endings

Author: Geoff Dyer.

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Item #: D33009
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 2022
Publisher: Geoff Dyer
ISBN: 9780374605568
When artists and athletes age, what happens to their work? Does it ripen or rot? In this beguiling meditation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last works of figures who've mattered to him throughout his life. With keen insight and sly wit, Dyer looks at Roger Federer's retirement, Friedrich Nietzsche's breakdo... More
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When artists and athletes age, what happens to their work? Does it ripen or rot? In this beguiling meditation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last works of figures who've mattered to him throughout his life. With keen insight and sly wit, Dyer looks at Roger Federer's retirement, 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, and Beethoven's final quartets, stressing the accomplishments of geniuses who defied convention, even after youth had passed.


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