Nice Work

The Campus Trilogy #3

by David Lodge

When Vic Wilcox, MD of Pringle's engineering works, meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on. But, in time, both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds - and about themselves.

Genres: Fiction, Humor, British Literature, Novels, Academia, Comedy, Literary Fiction

277 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

David John Lodge was an English author and critic. A literature professor at the University of Birmingham until 1987, 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 second two were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Another theme is Roman Catholicism, beginning from his first published novel The Picturegoers (1960). Lodge also wrote television screenplays and three stage plays. After retiring, he continued to publish literary criticism. His edition of Twentieth Century Literary Criticism (1972) includes essays on 20th-century writers such as T.S. Eliot. In 1992, he published The Art of Fiction, a collection of essays on literary techniques with illustrative examples from great authors, such as Point of View (Henry James), The Stream of Consciousness (Virginia Woolf) and Interior Monologue (James Joyce), beginning with Beginning and ending with Ending.

Reviews

[Vanda]

Davida Lodge mám ráda. Před dvaceti lety mě jeho knihy zcela jistě okouzlovaly podstatně víc než dnes, ale mám pro něj dodnes slabost a tak jsem si udělala radost a konečně si přečetla Pěknou práci. A bylo to pěkné, opět ta Lodgeova struktura vyprávění, akademické prostředí, důvěrnost postav a potěšení z příjemné četby. Čaem se určitě vrhnu ještě na Nejtišší trest.