Overview
A memoir by the celebrated essayist that explores her relationship with her father, a lover of wine
In The Wine Loverās Daughter, Anne Fadiman examinesāwith all her characteristic wit and feelingāher relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine.
An appreciation of wineāalong with a plummy upper-crust accent, expensive suits, and an encyclopedic knowledge of Western literatureāwas an essential element of Clifton Fadimanās 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 Loverās Daughter traces the arc of a manās infatuation, from the glass of cheap Graves he drank in Paris in 1927; through the ChĆ¢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 Fadimanās father, along with her relationship with him and her own less ardent relationship with wine, are the flesh. The Wine Loverās Daughter is a poignant exploration of love, ambition, class, family, and the pleasures of the palate by one of our finest essayists.
This book title, The Wine Lover's Daughter (A Memoir) - 9780374537944, ISBN: 9780374537944, by Anne Fadiman, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (November 13, 2018) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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