Nice Work 140119205

在线阅读本书 Winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award and short-listed for the Booker Prize, lsquo;Nice Workrsquo; is a hilarious comedy of society and class misunderstandings.When Vic Wilcox, MD of Pringlersquo;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 otherrsquo;s worlds ndash; and about themselves.'A work of immense intelligence, informative, disturbing and diverting' Observer. 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," observed PW . 35,000 first printing. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to the Paperback edition. From Library Journal Robyn Penrose is a lecturer in 19th-century literature at a university located in the fictitious English Midlands city of Rummidge. Vic Wilcox is managing director of Pringle's, an industrial casting company located in a grimy suburb. They are thrown together as part of a "shadow scheme" concocted by their superiors in response to a governmentally ordained "Industry Year." Entering into the arrangement with considerable skepticism and lack of appreciation for the other's mode of life, they get off to a rocky start, but then slowly develop a mutual respect and even liking for each other (and in Vic's case something more). Nice Work is, indeed, a "nice" novel. Lodge spoofs in a nonjudgmental way both the pretensions of academia and the materialism of the upper-middle business class. While lacking in stylistic elegance, this is a well-told tale full of gentle humor that should, despite its setting, have broad appeal to Americans. - David W. Henderson, Eckerd Coll. Lib., St. Petersburg, Fla. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.