Vinegar Girl
ISBN 9780099589877 | | |
Website | hogarthshakespeare |
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Vinegar Girl is a 2016 novel by American author Anne Tyler. It is the third book of Random House's "Hogarth Shakespeare" project, in which contemporary novelists retell stories from Shakespeare's plays.[1] Interviewed by Ron Charles in The Washington Post, Tyler said " 'The Katherina in Shakespeare’s play is insane... She’s shrieking at Petruchio from the moment she meets him. And he’s not much better. So you know I had to tone them down. I’m sure that somebody is out there, saying, ‘This isn’t a shrew at all.’ "[2]
Plot
The plot is based on William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, updated to present-day Baltimore. Kate Battista is the unmarried 29-year-old daughter of an eccentric scientist, Dr. Louis Battista who is a scientist at Johns Hopkins University. Having dropped out of college in her freshman year after calling a professor's research project "half-assed," she now finds herself with very limited opportunities: she works as a pre-school assistant, and takes care of Dr. Battista and her high-school-age sister Bunny.
Dr. Battista's brilliant lab assistant, Pyotr, will soon have to leave the country as his student visa expires. Dr. Battista devises a plan for a
Reviews
References
- New York Times" (October 5, 2015).
- ^ "Anne Tyler loathes Shakespeare. So she decided to rewrite one of his plays.", The Washington Post (June 21, 2016).
- New York Times(July 6, 2016).
- NPR.org(June 21, 2016).