Nice Work
David LodgeThe final volume of David Lodge’s witty Campus Trilogy is set around the unlikely relationship between a senior manager and a left-wing academic. "A work of immense intelligence, informative, disturbing and diverting" - (The Observer).
When Vic Wilcox, managing director of Pringle’s engineering works, meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly - as their very different lifestyles and ideologies collide head-on. What, after all, are they supposed to learn from each other? But, in time, both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other’s worlds - and about themselves.
"As a comedy of society and class misunderstandings, Lodge has never observed more sharply... A very nice work indeed." - The Times
David Lodge (CBE)’s novels include Changing Places, Small World and Nice Work and, most recently, A Man of Parts. He has also written plays and screenplays, and several books of literary criticism. He is an Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Birmingham, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.