 First edition | |
| Author | David Lodge |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Paul Cox |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Campus novel, industrial novel |
| Publisher | Secker & Warburg |
Publication date | 1988 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (Hardback, Paperback) |
| Pages | 277 pp (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0-436-25667-3 |
| OCLC | 18778725 |
| 823/.914 20 | |
| LC Class | PR6062.O36 N5 1988 |
| Preceded by | Small World: An Academic Romance |
Nice Work is a 1988 novel by British author David Lodge. It is the final volume of Lodge's "Campus Trilogy", after Changing Places (1975) and Small World: An Academic Romance (1984).[1] Nice Work won the Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1988[2] and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize.[3]
The larger socioeconomic background to the novel was the economic policies and education cuts during the Thatcher government.[4] Lodge was inspired, in part, by his experiences of shadowing a friend who supervised an engineering firm.[5]
The year following its publication, the book was adapted in a four-part TV series for the BBC.
- ^ Tripney, Natasha (26 November 2011). "The Campus Trilogy by David Lodge – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
- ^ Able, Sane and. "David Lodge". The Agency. Retrieved 2 September 2023.
- ^ Cooke, Rachel (20 April 2008). "Nice work". The Observer. Retrieved 9 August 2017.
- ^ Connaroe, Joel (23 July 1989). "Campus Confidential". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
- ^ Nightingale, Benedict (16 October 1989). "The Tools a Writer Used for Building An Industrial Novel". The New York Times. Retrieved 9 July 2017.