A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK In this endlessly stimulating investigation into ?things coming
to an end artists' last works time running out' Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late
middle age against the last days and last achievements of writers painters athletes and
musicians who've mattered to him throughout his life. He examines Friedrich Nietzsche's
breakdown in Turin Bob Dylan's reinventions of old songs Beethoven's final quartets and much
more.
