Homework

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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 * * The Times * * 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 * * Sunday Times * * 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 * * Financial Times * * The Geoff Dyer voice is unmistakeable . . . [an] evocation of a lost era, a postwar culture eager to embrace new freedoms -- BLAKE MORRISON * * Guardian * * 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 * * Irish Sunday Independent * * Geoff Bloody Dyer - without doubt one of contemporary Eng. Lit.'s most successful, intellectually playful and stylistically distinctive voices * * Spectator * * 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 * * Financial Times * * 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" * * The Week * * 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 -- RICHARD FORD Satisfying * * Times Literary Supplement * * Dyer is always interesting -- MARGARET DRABBLE 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 -- MERVE EMRE A nostalgic snapshot of a post-war coming-of-age -- ROGER LEWIS * * Daily Telegraph * * A jacuzzi of a book: soothing and fizzing at the same time -- JOAN BAKEWELL