Nice Work - Hardcover

Lodge, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670828068 ISBN 13: 9780670828067

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1989

Synopsis

Vic Wilcox, the managing director of a struggling engineering firm, is thrown together with leftist feminist professor Robyn Penrose, leading to clashes over just about everything and eventually an understanding of sorts

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About the Author:

David Lodge is the author of ten previous novels, a trilogy of plays and a novella. He has also written stage plays screenplays and numerous works of literary criticism. His books have been translated into twenty-five languages. He is Honorary Professor of Modern English Literature at the University of Birmingham, where he taught for many years, and lives in that city. David Lodge’s books have sold over 2.5 million copies.
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From Publishers Weekly:

His tongue caustic, and his take on British society provocative and funny, Lodge skewers virtually every aspect of Thatcherite Britain in this top-notch satirical novel, a sequel to Small World . Set in an industrial city in the Midlands, the story's protagonists are Vic Wilcox, managing director of a failing engineering firm, and Robyn Penrose, temporary lecturer in English lit at the University of Rummidge. Robyn is chosen to "shadow" Vic at the factory one day a week, as part of a program to effect a liaison between the university and local industry. A "trendy leftist feminist" with highfalutin views about the evils of industrial capitalism, Robyn looks down on Vic, whose education is scanty and whose lifestyle is diametrically opposed to hers. Gradually, however, the two acquire a grudging respect for each other and, as the plot becomes agreeably convoluted, the pragmatic engineer (whose criterion is "who pays?") and the pedantic literary critic change places on fortune's ladder. Scarcely anything escapes Lodge's scorn--from business ethics to academic fustian--but the satire is never excessive. To be published simultaneously with an earlier work, Out of the Shelter (Penguin paperback), this lively comic novel--short-listed for last year's Booker Prize--is the perfect book to introduce Lodge to those American readers not yet acquainted with his work.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0670828068
• ISBN 13: 9780670828067
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288