{"product_id":"the-last-days-of-roger-federer-9780374605568","title":"The Last Days of Roger Federer","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e''s best books of spring 2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn extended meditation on late style and last works from one of our greatest living critics (Kathryn Schulz, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen artists and athletes age, what happens to their work? Does it ripen or rot? Achieve a new serenity or succumb to an escalating torment? 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 who've mattered to him throughout his life. With a playful charm and penetrating intelligence, he recounts 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, Bjorn Borg's defeats, and Beethoven's final quartetsand considers the intensifications and modifications of experience that come when an ending is within s\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49401919799639,"sku":"9780374605568","price":22.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-last-days-of-roger-federer-9780374605568","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}