The last days of Roger Federer : and other endings
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
283 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Status
Spanish Springs Library - Adult Nonfiction
700.922 DYER 2022
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700.922 DYER 2022
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-283)
Description
"When 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 quartets—and considers the intensifications and modifications of experience that come when an ending is within sight. Throughout, he stresses the accomplishments of uncouth geniuses who defied convention, and went on doing so even when their beautiful youths were over. Ranging from Burning Man and the Doors to the nineteenth-century Alps and back, Dyer’s book on last things is also a book about how to go on living with art and beauty—and on the entrancing effect and sudden illumination that an Art Pepper solo or Annie Dillard reflection can engender in even the most jaded and ironic sensibilities."--publisher's website.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Dyer, G. (2022). The last days of Roger Federer: and other endings (First edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dyer, Geoff. 2022. The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dyer, Geoff. The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Dyer, Geoff. The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endings First edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
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