by David Lodge · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140119206
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«Nice Work» is David Lodge's satirical comedy novel, published by Penguin in paperback (384 pages, in English).
The plot pits Robyn Penrose, a literature professor and committed feminist, against Vic Wilcox, director of an engineering company: a work-exchange programme forces them to observe each other's world closely. The clash between academia and industry, and between their respective ideas about life and work, fuels a satirical comedy about social classes and mutual prejudices.
Nice Work is the third instalment of David Lodge's Campus Trilogy. It won the Sunday Express Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1988.
For readers of British literary fiction and satirical humour, particularly those who enjoy novels about the academic world and class tensions.
David John Lodge was an English novelist and critic. He was a literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, and some of his novels satirise academic life, notably the "Campus Trilogy" – Changing Places: A Tale of Two Campuses (1975), Small World: An Academic Romance (1984) and Nice Work (1988). The latter two were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Another theme is Roman Catholicism, beginning from his first published novel The Picturegoers (1960).
