Homework - A Memoir

''Moving, atmospheric, truthful, perceptive and hilariously funny - I loved it: a piece of our English history, the story of a vanished time, which feels close at hand but thoroughly gone. What a story. What a great story'' TESSA HADLEY In Homework , Geoff Dyer reflects on his childhood and what it means to come of age in England in the 60s and 70s, in a country shaped by the aftermath of the Second World War but accelerating towards change. He was born in Cheltenham in the late fifties, the only child of a dinner lady and a planning engineer. Raised in a working-class area, Geoff and his mates found much joy recreating battles with their beloved Tommy guns, kicking a beachball around until its untimely death, and collecting anything and everything they could find; football cards, conkers and Action Man figures. When Geoff passes his 11-plus exams he gets in to a Cheltenham Grammar School, a school which drastically changes the trajectory of his life.

Product details

• Authors: Geoff Dyer, Dyer Geoff
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.05.2025
• EAN: 9781837261987
• ISBN: 978-1-83726-198-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 240 mm x 30 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, English, Memoirs, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Autobiography: writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs