NICE WORK

Book ID/图书代码： 03540004B05172

English Summary/英文概要： Winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award and short-listed for the Booker Prize, ‘Nice Work’ is a hilarious comedy of society and class misunderstandings. 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. ’A work of immense intelligence, informative, disturbing and diverting’ Observer.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 英国作家David Lodge所写的Nice Work。书中的主角还算不上大富，只是工厂的总经理，在经济不景气与枯燥的家庭生活压力下，还要面对工厂里的人事纷扰。当女主角以文学教授的身分来到工厂担任顾问时，一开始的困扰逐渐成为企业家无趣生活里唯一的清新空气。Nice Work的主题其实正是延续著书中女主角在大学里研究的英国「工业文学」传统。故事的结局是两人之间短暂的火花终究无法融合不同的世界，经济景气还会复苏，生活还要继续下去，不过，资本家的形象在文学家眼中有一点改善。

Awards/获奖情况：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., From Library Journal

"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. ---From Publishers Weekly

About the Author/作者介绍： 戴维·洛奇(David Lodge, 1935— )是一位享有世界声誉的英国小说家兼文学批评家。他从1960年发表作品,至今已有11部长篇小说问世,它们被翻译成了25种文字在全球各地出版。《小世界》等作品中译本的出版使他在中国，特别是在中国知识界广为人知。他的小说以机智诙谐的语言、有趣的构思、各种传统和新潮小说技法的灵活运用,受到了包括普通读者、知识分子和批评家在内的广大读者的喜爱。
戴维·洛奇1935年生于伦敦，先后就读于伦敦大学和伯明翰大学，获博士学位。从1960年至1987年一直在伯明翰大学英语系任教。1987年提前退休成为专业作家，但仍为伯明翰大学荣誉教授，并一直担任英国皇家文学会会员。
作为身兼二职的学者型作家，戴维·洛奇总是试图在小说中反映学术界的各种现象。他的最著名的小说几乎都是以知识分子（校园内外的教授与学生）为主要人物，以学术、文化界写作背景的。他的著名的“校园三部曲”可谓这方面的代表，这三部小说——《换位》、《小世界》和《美好的工作》具有互文关系，反映的基本上是与学术界相关的故事。
DAVID LODGE 的作品还包括《治疗》和最近的《思索》等,以及一系列的文学评论,如《小说的艺术》和《写作的技巧》。
David Lodge is the author of ten novels, including Small World and Nice Work, both of which were shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He is also the author of several works of literary criticism, including The Art of Fiction and The Practice of Writing.

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