BFJ6 Geoff Dyer

Dyer’s truthful and moving memoir of growing up in provincial England in the 60’s and 70s, 

tells the story of an eroded but strangely resilient England and captures the essence of a now-vanished time  As the only child of a dinner lady and a sheet-metal worker, Geoff Dyer grew up in the world of the English working class: hardworking, respectable, steeped in memories of the Depression and World War II.  

Homework celebrates the opportunities afforded to him by the post-war settlement and asks what it means to live through an era of intense transformation. 

Geoff Dyer is the award-winning author of many books, including The Last Days of Roger Federer, Out of Sheer Rage, Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, Zona, See/Saw, and the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism). A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Dyer lives in Los Angeles, where he is a writer in residence at the University of Southern California. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages.