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Wine Lover’s Daughter
Anne Fadiman, PaperbackOriginal price was: $16.00.$13.60Current price is: $13.60.
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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’s Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines–with all her characteristic wit and feeling–her relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine.
An appreciation of wine–along with a plummy upper-crust accent, expensive suits, and an encyclopedic knowledge of Western literature–was an essential element of Clifton Fadiman’s 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’s Daughter traces the arc of a man’s 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’s father, along with her relationship with him and her own less ardent relationship with wine, are the flesh. The Wine Lover’s Daughter is a poignant exploration of love, ambition, class, family, and the pleasures of the palate by one of our finest essayists.
Description
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Anne Fadiman
Published: 11/13/2018
Publisher: Fsg Adult
ISBN: 9780374537944
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.10w x 0.70d
Additional information
Weight | 0.4 lbs |
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Dimensions | 7.5 × 5.1 × 0.7 in |
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