Hogarth Shakespeare: Vinegar Girl : William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew Retold: A Novel (Paperback)

from ashleytylerjohn

What an unalloyed pleasure! I was hesitant on the whole rewriting-Shakespeare concept--I'm not a purist, and Will himself borrowed plots aplenty in his day--but I enjoy a good surprise, and how surprising can a rewritten Shakespeare play be? Plenty, apparently. And Tyler takes the story a step be...

from LizzieD

If you crave Shakespeare as chick-lit, Anne Tyler's take on The Taming of the Shrew in Vinegar Girl is just your cup of froth. Kate's father, a researcher in autoimmunity, is about to lose his research assistant when his visa expires. Dr. Battista's solution is to marry Kate to him so that he can...

from AmaliaGavea

Retelling one of the most famous plays of the Bard, placing it in our boring modern era, is not an easy task. However, Vinegar Girl is anything but boring. I always thought that The Taming of the Shrew has some of the quirkiest characters created by Shakespeare, and the protagonists in Vinegar Gi...

from Ling.Lass

In capturing the quirky interactions within families, and revolving around a woman at loose ends in her life, Vinegar Girl shares characteristics of many earlier Anne Tyler novels. (The Clock Winder and Celestial Navigation come to mind). This book is quite different, of course, in that it's a re...

from kgallagher625

The Hogarth Shakespeare project features Shakespeare's works retold by current novelists. "Vinegar Girl" is Anne Tyler's take on "The Taming of the Shrew." I loved this book, and think that Anne Tyler was the perfect choice for the play, which is completely politically incorrect for today's taste...