Nice Work (King Penguin) - Softcover

Lodge, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140133968 ISBN 13: 9780140133967

Publisher: Penguin, 1990

Synopsis

"A funny, intelligent, superbly paced social comedy." --The New York TimesVic Wilcox, a self-made man and managing director of an engineering firm. has little regard for academics, and even less for feminists. So when Robyn Penrose, a trendy leftist teacher, is assigned to "shadow" Vic under a goverment program created to foster mutual understanding between town and gown, the hilarious collusion of lifestyles and ideologies that ensues seems unlikely to foster anything besides mutual antipathy. But in the course of a bumpy year, both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds--and about themselves.

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Review:

"A funny, intelligent and superbly placed social comedy" (The New York Times)

"A work of immense intelligence, informative, disturbing and diverting" (Observer)

"As a comedy of society and class misunderstandings, Lodge has never observed more sharply... A very nice work indeed" (The Times)

"Rich in reserves of humour and irony...the book is a delight " (Mail on Sunday)

Book Description:

The final novel in David Lodge's prize-winning campus trilogy, shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140133968
• ISBN 13: 9780140133967
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288