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A review by toddlleopold
Nice Work by David Lodge
5.0
Charming and humane. Lodge could have made his characters, a Tory industrialist and a feminist professor, straw men - and there is a touch of that - but over the course of the book both grow. Meanwhile, Lodge shows he’s done his research on the state of work and academia in 1980s Thatcher Britain, and if it’s one thing that made me sad, it’s that the situation has actually gotten worse in the last 35 years.
The ending ties things up a bit too neatly, down to a deus ex machina, but since one thing “Nice Work” tries to do is echo 19th-century novels, I didn’t hold it against him. Highly recommended.
The ending ties things up a bit too neatly, down to a deus ex machina, but since one thing “Nice Work” tries to do is echo 19th-century novels, I didn’t hold it against him. Highly recommended.