Homework

The first memoir from Geoff Dyer, author of Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It , recollecting his childhood and coming of age in postwar Britain

If you've read Dyer before then you'll need no persuasion to read this book. If you haven't, it's the perfect place to start

Geoff Dyer and I nearly share a name and a birth year. We were born in different countries, however, under different circumstances. No matter. Every page of this exquisite, witty memoir brought back a flood of memories and emotions that seemed to be my own, so lovingly and precisely does Dyer articulate them. A heartfelt book by a supremely intelligent writer

While the subject of Homework is ostensibly Geoff Dyer, as ever his interest is really something tangential. Class is "the treacle that gets everywhere in England" . . . Dyer conjures up a Cheltenham of rusty allotment sheds and recycled school dinners

Homework by Geoff Dyer is as analogue and comi-tragic as my own childhood - if it had been all white and not set in London - and is itself like a long pre-digital summer, full of extremely particular, local, lovely things

This acutely observed memoir of postwar England might be the highlight of [Dyer's] illustrious four-decade career . . . This Gloucestershire lad turned boomer Proust is his own man, and he has written a highly original memoir that will provoke, amuse, beguile -- and endure

The Geoff Dyer voice is unmistakeable . . . [an] evocation of a lost era, a postwar culture eager to embrace new freedoms

Dyer's most personal book yet, this is a moving but characteristically droll account of family, as well as an astute retrospective on post-war Britain

Geoff Bloody Dyer - without doubt one of contemporary Eng. Lit.'s most successful, intellectually playful and stylistically distinctive voices

Dyer is adept at combining an alluring nostalgia with a trenchant understanding of class anxiety and adolescent restlessness, and is very funny to boot

Dyer has produced something exceptional - a work that at one moment reduced me to fits of giggles (with its riffs, say, on school dinners), and at others made me think - about class, memory, or how Britain has changed. If you haven't read Dyer before, Homework is the "perfect place to start"

Homework is wonderful Geoff-Dyer writing, which we've all learned to crave; something to delight and to move us and to edify us on every page. I find him an irresistible writer

Satisfying

Dyer is always interesting

Reading Homework is like going for a long walk with a close friend, whose singular voice-inventive, absorbing, a little rakish, and wonderfully dry-will hold your interest for hours on end. Geoff Dyer is a profoundly intelligent memoirist. His childhood emerges from these pages as both his utterly distinctive experience and the shared history of a nation

A nostalgic snapshot of a post-war coming-of-age

Geoff Dyer is an award-winning author of four novels and numerous non-fiction books, including Out of Sheer Rage , Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It , Zona and, most recently, The Last Days of Roger Federer. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, he has recently returned to London after ten years as Writer in Residence at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. His books have been translated into twenty-six languages.

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