Book review: Memoir rich in literary allusion, social mobility, and so much more

'Homework' is an account of Geoff Dyer’s upbringing in Cheltenham in the 1960s and ‘70s, a world he evokes in gloriously minute, Proustian detail
Geoff Dyer’s 1960s working-class childhood is depicted as unapologetically ordinary, filled with the boyish toys and past times that arouse gentle nostalgia for the mid-20th-century world.

Geoff Dyer’s 1960s working-class childhood is depicted as unapologetically ordinary, filled with the boyish toys and past times that arouse gentle nostalgia for the mid-20th-century world.

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Eoghan Smith

  • Homework 
  • Geoff Dyer 
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