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Vinegar Girl

by Anne Tyler

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ISBN 10
0804141266
ISBN 13
9780804141260
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New York: Hogarth, 2016. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Like New. Stated First U.S. Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending with 1. Signed by Anne Tyler the title page. An Autograph Book Collector's Club June 2016 Selection by Tattered Cover Book Store in Denver. The book appears unread and is tight and square with solid hinges, sharp tips, and clean unmarred boards. Textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library or remaindered. The dust jacket is unclipped ($25.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover.

Could the taming of Shakespeare's shrew, Katherina, happen today? Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, off-beat and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare's most beloved comedies.

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On Aug 14 2016, CloggieDownunder said:
"She had always been such a handful – a thorny child, a sullen teenager, a failure as a college student. What was to be done with her? But now they had the answer: marry her off. They would never give her another moment's thought"

Vinegar Girl is the twenty-first novel by American author, Anne Tyler, and is written under the Hogarth Shakespeare banner. It is billed as William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew retold. At twenty-nine, Kate Battista is in a dead-end job she doesn't particularly like, and saddled with looking after her air-head fifteen-year-old sister and her workaholic father. Kate is no shrinking violet though: she lets them know what irritates her in no uncertain terms. Her boss suggests she practice restraint but: "The unsatisfying thing about practicing restraint was that nobody knew you were practicing it"

So when Dr Louis Battista suggests she marry Pyotr Shcherbakov, his brilliant research assistant, whose O-1 visa is about to run out, she lets her father know how she feels: "We are not in another culture, and this is not an arranged marriage. This is human trafficking….You're sending me to live with a stranger, sleep with a stranger, just for your own personal gain"

Pyotr tries to court Kate, despite her irritability, her rudeness and her flat refusal to help. And despite the gross insult she perceives at the suggestion, his enthusiasm, his lack of guile and his straight talking begins to weaken her resolve "…they say you can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar" she tells him. "Yes, they would," Pyotr said, mysteriously. "But why would you want to catch flies, hah? Answer me that, vinegar girl"

Anne Tyler's version of this classic Shakespeare tale is an absolute delight. Her characters are ordinary people with flaws and believable quirks; their dialogue is just as ordinary and everyday; and yet, they are endearing, each in their own way. Her descriptive prose is marvellous: "an unhealthy-looking young man with patchy beige chin whiskers that reminded Kate of lichen". And the tale is filled with humour: the reader will find themselves smiling, chuckling and (at least at the wedding ceremony) laughing out loud. Witty and funny.

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Bookseller
Armadillo Alley Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
2305
Title
Vinegar Girl
Author
Anne Tyler
Format/Binding
Cloth
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition / First Printing
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0804141266
ISBN 13
9780804141260
Publisher
Hogarth
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
2016
Bookseller catalogs
First Editions; Signed Books;

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