Vinegar Girl is a modern novelization of Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew.” It tells the story of Kate Battista, a strong-willed woman whose scientist father wants her to marry her off to his research assistant Pyotr so that he can stay in the country. The novel addresses the themes of patriarchy and misogyny, conformity, gender roles, family, and codependency.
Anne Tyler (born 1941) is considered one of America's most important living writers. Her works evince familiarity with an extended literary tradition, with influences ranging from Emerson and Thoreau ...
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Anne Tyler has been steadily gaining well-deserved critical and popular attention for the eight novels and numerous short stories she has produced over the past seventeen years. Her work is as remark...
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"The real heroes to me in my books," Anne Tyler told Marguerite Michaels, "are first the ones who manage to endure and second the ones who somehow are able to grant other people the privacy of the s...
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Biography Essay"The real heroes to me in my books," Anne Tyler told interviewer Marguerite Michaels, "are first the ones who manage to endure and second the ones who somehow are able to grant other pe...
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Anne Tyler
Anne Tyler