The Last Days of Roger Federer

‘Tennis, jazz, Dylan, movies, TV, drugs, Nietzsche, Beethoven. So, why am I laughing? Because Geoff Dyer once again melds commentary and observation with intellect and wit. Bouncing between criticism and memoir, Dyer is one of the few writers whose paragraphs I can immediately reread and get more from. The twists, turns, and delights abound, and when you finally put the book down you think, “Oh, yes, I’ve always been this smart, haven’t I?”’ - STEVE MARTIN‘Who can make the world new again like Geoff Dyer? For the low, low price of a book, he will rearrange the art on the walls of your memory so that you might see it again, as if for the first time. The Last Days of Roger Federer is an inspired cultural and personal meditation as well as an unsurprising delight. To read it is to feel relief that, despite Dyer’s contention that his life’s theme is ‘giving up’, he hasn’t’ - SLOANE CROSLEY‘A wonderfully original writer. Here [Dyer] uses the last days of Roger Federer’s tennis career as a jumping-off point for an examination of late style and last works, ranging from JMW Turner and Jean Rhys to Bob Dylan and John Coltrane’ - The Times, 2022 HighlightsPraise for Geoff Dyer: ‘Quite possibly the best living writer in Britain’ - Daily Telegraph‘A national treasure’ - ZADIE SMITH‘Brilliant … Dyer’s eyes miss nothing’ - Observer

Geoff Dyer is an award-winning author of ten non-fiction books and four novels, 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.