Reviews round-up
Homework
by Geoff Dyer
4 of 5 critics positive
8 reviews: 1 rave, 3 positives, 1 pan; 3 not stating a verdict in public
What the critics said
“this memoir will have you giggling for pages at a time”
No misery here — this memoir will have you giggling for pages at a time
“a witty account of provincial boyhood and thrifty, stoic fathers”
Geoff Dyer’s Homework is a witty account of provincial boyhood and thrifty, stoic fathers
“bursts with working-class pride”
Review: In Geoff Dyer's U.K. childhood, a Cadbury Milk Tray meant everything
“Wrings Playfulness from Pain”
A Memoir of Working-Class Britain Wrings Playfulness from Pain
“Shame his writing isn’t as interesting”
Childhood in the 1960s? Here’s why it was positively Victorian
Low expectations and thwarted desires: Geoff Dyer’s memoir of a working-class childhood
Homework by Geoff Dyer review – coming of age in 70s England
A Major Writer Remembers the ‘Nonreading Family’ That Shaped Him (Published 2025)
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