description: Nice Work is set around the unlikely relationship between Victor Wilcox, Managing Director of a struggling engineering plant, and Dr Robyn Penrose, a lecturer of English literature theory at Rummidge University. Robyn and Vic meet through a PR scheme designed to bring the Industry and the University closer, at a time when both the Industry and the University are threatened by the emerging monster of financial services industries; a time when making real things is going out of fashion, and ex-English lecturers compete with barrow-boy yuppies at City merchant banks just before the Big Bang.
language: English
title: Nice Work
titlecomplete: Nice Work
characters: Vic Wilcox, Robyn Penrose
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Comedy, Humor, Novels, Contemporary, College, 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Academia
ratings_count: 5533
series: The Campus Trilogy
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Sunday Express Book of the Year
publisher: Klett Ernst /Schulbuch