Vinegar Girl (Hogarth Shakespeare) - Hardcover

Tyler, Anne

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0345809149 ISBN 13: 9780345809148

Publisher: Knopf Canada, 2016

Synopsis

Could the taming of Shakespeare's shrew, Katherina, happen today? Find out in this funny, off-beat version from one of our most beloved novelists.


"You can't get around Kate Battista as easily as all that."
    Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she's always in trouble at work--her preschool charges adore her, but the adults don't always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. Dr. Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough. His research could help millions. There's only one problem: his brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr.... When Dr. Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, he's relying--as usual--on Kate to help him. Kate is furious: this time he's really asking too much. But will she be able to resist the two men's touchingly ludicrous campaign to win her round?
     Anne Tyler's retelling of The Taming of the Shrew asks whether a thoroughly modern, independent woman like Kate would ever sacrifice herself for a man. Its answer is as individual, off-beat, and funny as Kate herself.

About this title

About the Author

ANNE TYLER is the author of twenty bestselling novels. Her most recent, A Spool of Blue Thread, was a Sunday Times bestseller and shortlisted for both the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man Booker Prize. She has won the Pulitzer Prize and the Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, which recognizes a lifetime's achievement in books, as well as being nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as "the greatest novelist writing in English."
Vinegar Girl sees Anne Tyler going behind the scenes of one of Shakespeare's most controversial yet enduring (Kiss Me Kate, 10 Things I Hate About You) plays: "You know how sometimes a friend will tell you something that happened to her, and you think, wait, there must be more to it than that, I'm sure there's another side to this. Well, that's how I've always felt about The Taming of the Shrew." The author lives in Baltimore, MD.

Edition details

• Publisher: Knopf Canada
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0345809149
• ISBN 13: 9780345809148
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240