Hardly a shrew, not really a taming Anne Tyler moves Shakespeare's play to Baltimore but it still doesn't make sense, says James Walton
The traditional, if wrong-headed, case against Tyler is that her books are too nice to be properly great - Adam Mars-Jones once witheringly compared Philip Roth's "astonishing display of piss and vinegar" to Tyler's "milk and cookies".
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| Published in | Daily telegraph (London, England : 1969) |
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| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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London (UK)
Daily Telegraph
18.06.2016
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| Summary: | The traditional, if wrong-headed, case against Tyler is that her books are too nice to be properly great - Adam Mars-Jones once witheringly compared Philip Roth's "astonishing display of piss and vinegar" to Tyler's "milk and cookies". |
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| ISSN: | 0307-1235 |