Lu Mingqi College Trilogy 3 - Good Job

Author: David Lodge
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: The perfect conclusion to the "Lymington College Trilogy"; an odd union of university education and the corporate world; a love-hate interplay between humanistic traditions and mercenary pursuits. These days she lived a double life, and felt she had become a more interesting and complex person as a result. Silversbury was a factory-laden landscape, dotted with warehouses, crisscrossed by roads that wound in and out, overlaid with overgrown railway cuttings and dilapidated canals, resembling Martian patterns. The wasteland itself was like a shadow country, the dark side of Lymington, a land unknown to those who had been nurtured by the light of cultural and academic enlightenment in university. Of course, the reverse was true for those working at Pringle: the university and everything it stood for were in the shadows—strange, alien, and a little intimidating. These two regions had their own values, their own dramas, their own languages and manners, everything being vastly different. Hovering between their boundaries, Rowena felt like a spy; and like spies, she was occasionally tormented by waves of suspicion: whether justice was on her side.