Nice Work (King Penguin)
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ISBN: 0140133968 / Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, July 1990
Vic Wilcox, the managing director of a struggling engineering firm, is thrown together with leftist feminist professor Robyn Penrose, a union that leads to clashes over a myriad of issues and to an eventual understanding of sorts
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"A funny, intelligent, superbly paced social comedy." --The New York TimesVic Wilcox, a self-made man and managing director of an engineering firm. has little regard for academics, and even less for feminists. So when Robyn Penrose, a trendy leftist teacher, is assigned to "shadow" Vic under a goverment program created to foster mutual understanding between town and gown, the hilarious collusion of lifestyles and ideologies that ensues seems unlikely to foster anything besides mutual antipathy. But in the course of a bumpy year, both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds--and about themselves.
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