Farrar, Straus And Giroux
The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir
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9780374537944
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9780374537944
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A memoir by the celebrated essayist that explores her relationship with her father, a lover of wine In The Wine Lover? Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines?ith all her characteristic wit and feeling?er relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine. An appreciation of wine?long with a plummy upper-crust accent, expensive suits, and an encyclopedic knowledge of Western literature?as an essential element of Clifton Fadiman? escape from lower-middle-class Brooklyn to swanky Manhattan. But wine was not just a class-vaulting accessory; it was an object of desire. The Wine Lover? Daughter traces the arc of a man? infatuation, from the glass of cheap Graves he drank in Paris in 1927; through the Ch?teau Lafite Rothschild 1904 he drank to celebrate his eightieth birthday, when he and the bottle were exactly the same age; to the wines that sustained him in his last years, when he was blind but still buoyed, as always, by hedonism. Wine is the spine of this touching memoir; the life and character of Fadiman? father, along with her relationship with him and her own less ardent relationship with wine, are the flesh. The Wine Lover? Daughter is a poignant exploration of love, ambition, class, family, and the pleasures of the palate by one of our finest essayists.
| Author: Anne Fadiman |
| Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux |
| Publication Date: Nov 13, 2018 |
| Number of Pages: 272 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN-10: 0374537941 |
| ISBN-13: 9780374537944 |
The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir
$16.00
$14.63
Sale 9%
A memoir by the celebrated essayist that explores her relationship with her father, a lover of wine In The Wine Lover? Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines?ith all her characteristic wit and feeling?er relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine. An appreciation of wine?long with a plummy upper-crust accent, expensive suits, and an encyclopedic knowledge of Western literature?as an essential element of Clifton Fadiman? escape from lower-middle-class Brooklyn to swanky Manhattan. But wine was not just a class-vaulting accessory; it was an object of desire. The Wine Lover? Daughter traces the arc of a man? infatuation, from the glass of cheap Graves he drank in Paris in 1927; through the Ch?teau Lafite Rothschild 1904 he drank to celebrate his eightieth birthday, when he and the bottle were exactly the same age; to the wines that sustained him in his last years, when he was blind but still buoyed, as always, by hedonism. Wine is the spine of this touching memoir; the life and character of Fadiman? father, along with her relationship with him and her own less ardent relationship with wine, are the flesh. The Wine Lover? Daughter is a poignant exploration of love, ambition, class, family, and the pleasures of the palate by one of our finest essayists.
| Author: Anne Fadiman |
| Publisher: Farrar, Straus And Giroux |
| Publication Date: Nov 13, 2018 |
| Number of Pages: 272 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback/Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN-10: 0374537941 |
| ISBN-13: 9780374537944 |
