Vinegar Girl

• Author : Instaread
• Publisher : Instaread
• Release : 15 July 2016

Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler | Summary & Analysis Preview: Vinegar Girl, a novel by Anne Tyler, is a loose retelling of William Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew. Set in modern-day Baltimore, it follows twenty-somethings Kate and Pyotr as they plan a marriage of convenience. Pyotr needs a green card so he can continue working with Kate’s father on a scientific breakthrough. Kate needs a life beyond caring for her father and sister. As the couple sort through the

• Author : Anne Tyler
• Publisher : Random House
• Release : 16 June 2016

'A thoroughly modern love story' Guardian Kate Battista is stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and infuriating younger sister Bunny? Dr Battista has other problems. His brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr, his new scientific breakthrough will fall through... When Dr Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, he's relying - as usual - on Kate

• Author : Anne Tyler
• Publisher : National Geographic Books
• Release : 28 March 2017

Pulitzer Prize winner and American master Anne Tyler brings us an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies. Kate Battista feels 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 pre-school charges adore her, but their parents don’t always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. Dr. Battista has other problems.

• Author : Jennifer Flaherty,Heather C. Easterling
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• Release : 25 March 2021

The Taming of the Shrew has puzzled, entertained and angered audiences, and it has been reinvented many times throughout its controversial history. Offering a focused overview of key emerging ideas and discourses surrounding Shakespeare's problematic comedy, the volume reveals and debates how contemporary readings and adaptions of the play have sought to reconsider and resolve the play's contentious portrayal of gender, power and identity. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to the needs of students,

• Author : Marina Gerzic,Aidan Norrie
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 26 October 2018

From Medievalism to Early-Modernism: Adapting the English Past is a collection of essays that both analyses the historical and cultural medieval and early modern past, and engages with the medievalism and early-modernism—a new term introduced in this collection—present in contemporary popular culture. By focusing on often overlooked uses of the past in contemporary culture—such as the allusions to John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi (1623) in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books, and the impact of

• Author : Greg Escalante
• Publisher : Last Gasp
• Release : 01 February 2023

Chronologically arranged and annotated with information on size, print run and date of publishing, this work features complete prints and posters of Shag. It contains over 175 colour reproductions along with illustrated essays offering insight into the phenomenal success of his work.

• Author : Tim Lanzendörfer,Corinna Norrick-Rühl
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 23 September 2020

The Novel as Network: Forms, Ideas, Commodities engages with the contemporary Anglophone novel and its derivatives and by-products such as graphic novels, comics, podcasts, and Quality TV. This collection investigates the meaning of the novel in the larger system of contemporary media production and (post-)print culture, viewing the novel through the lens of actor network theory as a node in the novel network. Chapters underscore the deep interconnection between all the aspects of the novel, between the novel as

• Author : Anne Tyler
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release : 09 March 2017

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, sheâe(tm)s always in trouble at work âe" her pre-school charges adore her, but the adults donâe(tm)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

• Author : Andrew James Hartley
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 16 November 2017

How do writers of contemporary fiction incorporate Shakespeare - the man, his work and his cultural legacy? This collection brings together some of the leading voices in the scholarship of Shakespearean adaptation and appropriation to examine the ways in which writers have used literary culture's most prominent historical figure to their own ends since the year 2000. The essays consider the representation of the man himself, the rethinking of his stories - often in pointed defiance of the original - and

• Author : Robert L. Crooks,Karla Baur,Laura Widman
• Publisher : Cengage Learning
• Release : 01 January 2020

The most respected and authoritative human sexuality college textbook available, Crooks/Baur/Widman's OUR SEXUALITY, 14th Edition has been meticulously revised and updated with the latest research findings and psychosocial developments. It also is the first college text to deliver cutting-edge and in-depth emphasis on the impact of politics on sexuality. Direct yet nonjudgmental, the text covers our sexuality in an accessible, straightforward manner as it explores the similarities of sexual and relationship matters across cross cultural boundaries and sexual

• Author : Di Erqingtian
• Publisher : Funstory
• Release : 09 December 2019

Husband, you've gone too far! I avenged myself by cheating on him.He would flame his mother-in-law, his mistress, his ex-husband, and his CEO ...

• Author : Charles Peters
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 1888

• Author : Jane Buckingham
• Publisher : HarperCollins
• Release : 29 September 2015

With information on entertaining, etiquette, housekeeping, basic home repair, decorating, sex, and beauty, The Modern Girl's Guide to Life became a sensational bestseller as young women everywhere discovered this indispensable book covered everything they should know . . . but might not. Now, in this revised edition of the classic, style maven Jane Buckingham reveals more of the helpful tips and secrets that get passed down from generation to generation, but that many of us have somehow missed. Full of practical, definitive advice

• Author : Coral Ann Howells
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 01 April 2021

A fully revised critical overview of Atwood's career, emphasising her recent dystopias and the televised adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale.

• Author : Clenora Hudson PhD
• Publisher : AuthorHouse
• Release : 02 June 2014

So help me God, until my dying day, Im going to be fighting this thing. Im not going to be fighting color. Im not going to be fighting creed. Im not going to be fighting anyones belief, so long as its a safe and sound one, so long as it doesnt reach out and destroy me or destroy someone else. . . . We should stand up, we should make a stand once and for all, we should say that were going to