Homework: A Memoir

Geoff Dyer

May 2025 · Canongate Books

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Born in 1958, the only child of a dinner lady and a sheet-metal worker, Geoff Dyer grew up in a world shaped by the Second World War. It was a time of Airfix models and wargames, conkers and frugality: having splurged on a mono record player, Geoff's dad discovers it's a portal to endless expenditure and funding for records is abruptly withdrawn.

But far from being a story of hardship overcome, Homework is a celebration of opportunities afforded to Dyer's generation. A grammar-school education leads to books, prog rock (on a new stereo), girls, beer and, eventually, a place at Oxford.

In Homework, Dyer returns to his early life and asks what it means to live through an era of complex social transformation.

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Geoff Dyer's many award-winning books of fiction and non-fiction include Out of Sheer Rage, Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It and The Last Days of Roger Federer. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 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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Geoff Dyer's many award-winning books of fiction and non-fiction include Out of Sheer Rage, Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It and The Last Days of Roger Federer. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, he has recently retur...

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