Tareas : Unas memorias

The only child of a waitress and a metalworker, Geoff Dyer grew up in a world marked by the memory of postwar hardship. But in these memoirs, far from recounting a story of overcoming adversity, he celebrates his childhood and adolescence, the opportunities that era offered him, and the signs that led him to become a writer. During his primary school years, he discovered the tactile delights of model making, chestnut fighting, and the spread of warts in swimming pools. Then came other firsts —with girls, beer, and literature— and his passion for Shakespeare and progressive rock; a turbulent adolescence filled with pubs, awkward dates, and the occasional fistfight that would lead him to the gates of Oxford, where he would first sense that this short 65-kilometer journey along the A40 from Cheltenham would drastically change the course of his life.