Early departures, surprise comebacks, protracted witherings, late holdings-on: all different ways of ending things. These are Geoff Dyer’s subjects. At sixty-three, the “Slacker Laureate” is too old to still be zipping between beaches in Mexico and full moon parties in Thailand. The Last Days of Roger Federer and Other Endings is a book prompted by and about mortality—“the last days and last works” of artists and athletes “who’ve mattered to [Dyer] throughout his life.”
