On the Roof | Geoff Dyer | Granta Magazine

On the Roof

Geoff Dyer

‘Destiny, I think, is not what lies in store for you; it's what is already stored up inside you—and it's as patient as death.’

Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer is the author of ten non-fiction books and four novels, including Out of Sheer Rage, Zona and, most recently, See/Saw. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Dyer lives in Los Angeles. ‘Being-in-the-World’ is an extract from The Last Days of Roger Federer, forthcoming from Canongate on 9 June 2022, and from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US.

Photograph © Guy Drayton

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