THE LAST DAYS OF ROGER FEDERER

When artists and athletes age, what happens to their work? Does it ripen or rot? Achieve a new serenity or succumb to an escalatingtorment? As our bodies decay, how do we keep on? In this beguiling meditation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last works of writers, painters, footballers, musicians, and tennis stars whove mattered to him throughout his life. With a playful charm and penetrating intelligence, he recounts Friedrich Nietzsches breakdown in Turin, Bob Dylans reinventions of o...[Llegir més]