Dyer’s truthful and moving memoir of growing up in provincial England in the 60’s and 70s, tells the story of an eroded but strangely resilient England and captures the essence of a now-vanished time As the only child of a dinner lady and a sheet-metal worker, Geoff Dyer grew up in the world of the English working class: hardworking, respectable, steeped in memories of the Depression and World War II.
Homework celebrates the opportunities afforded to him by the post-war settlement and asks what it means to live through an era of intense transformation.
Geoff Dyer is the award-winning author of many books, including The Last Days of Roger Federer, Out of Sheer Rage, Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It, Zona, See/Saw, and the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism). A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Dyer lives in Los Angeles, where he is a writer in residence at the University of Southern California. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages.
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