The Last Days of Roger Federer - Geoff Dyer baking presents works that use the

presents works that use the powerlessness of art—its poverty— vis-à-vis the cybernetic machine to propose countermodels

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The Last Days of Roger Federer - Geoff Dyer baking presents works that use theHow and when do artists and athletes know that their careers are coming to an end? What if the end comes early in a writers life? How to keep going even as the ability to do so diminishes? In this ingeniously structured meditation, Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last works of writers, painters, musicians, and sports stars whove mattered to him throughout his life. With playful charm and penetrating