Geoff Dyer: Homework
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The first memoir from Geoff Dyer, recollecting his childhood and coming of age in postwar Britain.
Born in 1958, the only child of a dinner lady and a sheet-metal worker, Geoff Dyer grew up in a world shaped by memories of shortages and the Second World War. It was a time of Airfix models, wargames, conkers and frugality: Geoff’s father splurges on a mono record player – before imposing a blockade on buying records.
Aware of the monumental social change he lived through, Geoff Dyer now has a life his parents would barely recognise, and which seems inconceivable now: grammar-school education leads to books, prog rock (on a new stereo), girls, beer and, eventually, a place at Oxford.
In conversation with Claire Malcolm.
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