Nice Work

Nice Work 1988 is a novel by British author David Lodge It won the Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1988 and was also shortlisted for the Booker prize. Best Download Nice Work [ Author ] David Lodge [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr In this witty novel, Lodge engineers a confrontation between Robyn, a young, left wing female literary theorist, and Vic, an older, conservative, senior manager type There s a government initiative where Robyn is supposed to shadow Vic one day a week, an arrangement that initially neither of them can stand Each of them thinks the other s world is absurd and pointless I liked the book partly because I have also spent my professional life flitting between industry and academia I can absolute In this witty novel, Lodge engineers a confrontation between Robyn, a young, left wing female literary theorist, and Vic, an older, conservative, senior manager type There s a government initiative where Robyn is supposed to shadow Vic one day a week, an arrangement that initially neither of them can stand Each of them thinks the other s world is absurd and pointless I liked the book partly because I have also spent my professional life flitting between industry and academia I can absolutely understand Vic s criticisms of academics They re helplessly disorganised most of what they do makes no sense and is just empty posturing they re trapped in a rigid power structure, where the people in charge are mostly tenured professors whose minds atrophied long ago and why are they inflicting all this pain on themselves anyway, when there s no money to be made But Robyn s criticisms of the business world also make sense They re equally trapped by the cons...Rating one disgusted star of fiveThe Publisher Says Vic 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 b...In Nice Work David Lodge introduces the campus novel to the 19th century industrial novel The excuse for this unnatural pairing is a work exchange scheme and true to the late 1980s setting the basic assumption is the Lecturer from a thinly disguised Birmingham University English department has plenty to learn from industry, while the opposite, not not never, could be so Lust, however, intervenes to shake up all the best laid plans of mice and menBackground splashes of colour from the indust In Nice Work David Lodge introduces the campus novel to the 19th century industrial novel The excuse for this unnatural pairing is a work exchange scheme and true to the late 1980s setting the basic assumption is the Lecturer from a thinly disguised Birmingham University English dep...Don t take my four stars as a wide endorsement I recognize that not everyone would enjoy this as much as I did especially with the tiny print I really am getting old But I ll tell you about the book, and about why I appreciated it.I ve now read a few novels which would fall into a category I recently discovered a novel of ideas My sense of these novels is that plot, and certainly characterization, unfortunately tend to be secondary to setting up debates between characters represen Don t take my four stars as a wide endorsement I recognize that not everyone would enjoy this as much as I did especially with the tiny print I really am getting old But I ll tell you about the book, and about why I appreciated it.I ve now read a few novels which would fall into a category I recently discovered a novel of ideas My sense of these novels is that plot, and certainly characterization, unfortunately tend to be secondary to setting up debates between characters representing particular viewpoints and having the two ...The last in what is loosely termed The Campus Trilogy by David Lodge The books are only distantly linked, it s nice to read them in order but not strictly necessary, and each can stand on it s own two feet, I believe.This time we follow two very different characters Robyn is an idealist a feminist professor of literature, in a non relationship with her long time partner, Charles Vic is a man s man a managing director of a factory, macho, hard working, a laborer who has money because he s The last in ...Funny, moving and, in the long run, feel good Vic Wilcox a workaholic managing director of a small engineering firm who is opinionated, dismissive and seeking to be upwardly mobile for the sake of his wife ends up sharing his Wednesdays with a shadow from the local University on a project to get business and university inter relating A tad prophetic Mr Lodge The shadow in questio...The cap to David Lodge s Campus Trilogy is neither as neat nor as funny as its predecessors, but Nice Work is not without its enticements The melding of the Rummidge University with its grey industrial heart is a firm idea, and Lodge handles matters of class differences astutely The two lead characters are sympathetic in their own separate ways and are justifiably drawn together, and Lodge foreshadows their conclusions without being obnoxious about it Probably the most interesting point that The cap to David Lodge s Campus Trilogy is neither as neat nor as funny as its predecessors, but Nice Work is not without its enticements T...Smart book Very clever Lots of moments of, ooooooh, I see what you did there Wildly feminist professor meets traditionalist industrial business man via crazy shadow scheme in time of state budget cuts and overall economic downturn Riddled with literary references and social critique focused on acade...This book changed the way I thought about people in industry vs academia Definitely worth a read Plus it s really funny.This book, as its been said by many, is a brilliant piece of social commentary What is less often said is that it follows in the tradition of many a great title Mrs Gaskell s Mary Barton and North and South Forster s Howards End, Charlotte Bronte s Shirley and Dicken s Hard Times to name a few as a Condition of England Novel you can readon that here The titles I mention are studied by Robyn Penrose in novel, herself an expert in the Co This book, as its been said by many, is a brilliant piece of social commentary What is less often said is that it follows in the tradition of many a great title Mrs Gaskell s Mary Barton and North and South Forster s Howards End, Charlotte Bronte s Shirley and Dicken s Hard Times to name a few as a Condition of England Novel you can readon that here The titles I mention are studied by Robyn Penrose in novel, herself an expert in the Condition of England genre Note Howard s End in particular, for Nice Work is often considered a modern...

• English
• 05 November 2017
David Lodge
• Paperback
• 277 pages
• 0140133968
• David Lodge
• Nice Work