Book Review Homework By Geoff DyerFarrar, Straus and Giroux: 288 pages, $29If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Geoff Dyer is among the great uncategorizable prose writers of the past several decades and he also went to Oxford, albeit at the end of the 1970s, with the war deprivations of yore in rearview. AdvertisementReview What Roger Federer tells us about mortality, according to Geoff Dyer Dyer’s gloriously shape-shifting literary project — intensely perceptive, essayistic memoir — continues with “The Last Days of Roger Federer.”(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Still, the fact of remembering can sometimes feel more important to Dyer than how events translate. Books Video: Geoff Dyer on his new book, ‘Another Great Day at Sea’ Geoff Dyer is an idiosyncratic literary observer, a Brit who regularly writes for the London Review of Books. The real homework is the labor that we do when we spend our whole lives wondering.

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