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Homework

A Memoir

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Homework

Yazan: Geoff Dyer
Seslendiren: Leighton Pugh
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‘Moving, atmospheric, truthful, perceptive and hilariously funny’ Tessa Hadley
‘An irresistible writer’ Richard Ford

Born in 1958, the only child of a dinner lady and a sheet-metal worker, Geoff Dyer grew up in a world shaped by memories of shortages and the Second World War. But far from being a story of hardship overcome, Homework is a celebration of opportunities afforded by the post-war settlement.

It captures his time at primary school - discovering the tactile delights of Airfix, the combative seasons of conkers and plagues of verrucas at the local swimming baths. Then, at eleven, comes the crux, the exam that decided the future of generations of British school kids: splitting them between secondary modern and grammar schools. One of the lucky winners, Dyer goes to Cheltenham Grammar School to face the tribulations of teenage life - sport, gig-going, romantic fumblings, fights (well, getting punched in the face) - and other misadventures a place where he develops a love of literature (and beer and prog rock). At the threshold of university, Dyer gets his first intimations that a short geographical journey - just forty miles up the A40 - might drastically change the trajectory of his life.

Recalling an eroded but strangely resilient England, Homework traces roots that extend into the deep foundations of class society. dyer carries us back, with characteristic comic affection, to the joys and lingering questions of every childhood, and asks what it means to live through an era of intense transformation.

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"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" (JOHN SELF)
"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" (JEFFREY EUGENIDES)
"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" (JOHANNA THOMAS-CORR)
"A jacuzzi of a book: soothing and fizzing at the same time" (JOAN BAKEWELL)
"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" (BLAKE MORRISON)
"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" (LUKE WARDE)
"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" (ALEX CLARK)
"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""
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I liked the portrayal of family life in that time and the outlook and perspective of the previous generation, captured so well. The detail in the latter stage was a tad tedious.

excellent narration

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Oh gosh, never had a book taking me back to my own childhood so wonderfully. It made me realise that many of the authors experiences were shared ones, in as much as, that's what we did as well. A lovely warm journey back into the past and one I'm sure I will return to reading again and again.

Past experiences.

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As a 66 year old only child from Worcestershire who has recently lost the last of his parents and returned to clear up and sell off, GD’s recollections resonated powerfully. Hawk wind and Roger Chapman, sick from teenage drunkenness, trouble with authority as the innocent bystander, bubble gum cards and Airfix kits all connected as shared memories from the pen of a lost brother of a parallel rustic world.

Parallel Childhoods

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funny and engaging nostalgic book about a boy growing up in working class Gloucestershire in the 60s

memoir of 60s-70s

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Not so fascinated with toys and the minutiae of early childhood – but the way in which the world of books and education opens up a chasm between Geoff and his parents is very poignant. The whole thing is beautifully written.

Education lifts son out of parents' limited world

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