Questa serie esplora con umorismo gli scontri culturali e il mondo accademico attraverso la storia di due professori che si scambiano le cattedre. Seguiamo i loro shock culturali e le avventure inaspettate in terre straniere, che portano a situazioni assurde e argute. La narrazione tocca temi di disordini studenteschi e diversi ambienti universitari, ma offre soprattutto uno sguardo intelligente e divertente sui destini umani e sull'adattabilità. È un'opera che intrattiene indipendentemente dalla familiarità con il mondo accademico.
Anyone intrigued by differences between American and British academic institutions will find this an amusing and accurate send-up. David Lodge, portraying two American and British professors who replace one another at their respective institutions, gives greed, pettiness, and pretense full rein.
Philip Swallow, Morris Zapp, Persse McGarrigle and the lovely Angelica are the jet-propelled academics who are on the move, in the air and on the make in David Lodge’s satirical Small World . It is a world of glamorous travel and high excitement, where stuffy lecture rooms are swapped for lush corners of the globe, and romance is in the air.
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.
'One of the very best English comic novelists of the post-war era' - "Time Out." Three brilliantly comic novels revolving around the University of Rummidge and the eventful lives of its role-swapping academics.