Nice Work
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). Nice Work won the Sunday Express Book of the Year award in 1988 and was also shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
The larger socioeconomic background to the novel was the economic policies and education cuts during the Thatcher government. Lodge was inspired, in part, by his experiences of shadowing a friend who supervised an engineering firm.
The year following its publication, the book was adapted in a four-part TV series for the BBC.