The Last Days of Roger Federer
And Other Endings
'Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain' Daily TelegraphMuch 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.W. Turner's paintings of abstracted light, John Coltrane'…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-83885-574-1
- EAN: 9781838855741
- Produktnummer: 37475621
- Verlag: Canongate
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
- Masse: H24.0 cm x B16.2 cm x D2.9 cm 517 g
- Auflage: Main
- Abbildungen: integrated b&w images
- Gewicht: 517
Über den Autor
Geoff Dyer is an award-winning author of four novels and numerous non-fiction books, including Out of Sheer Rage, Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, Zona and, most recently, See/Saw. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, Dyer lives in Los Angeles, where he is Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages.
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