The Wine Lover'S Daughter: A Memoir

A memoir by the celebrated essayist that explores her relationship with her father, a lover of wine In The Wine LoverÆs Daughter, Anne Fadiman examinesùwith all her characteristic wit and feelingùher relationship with her father, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host whose greatest love was wine. An appreciation of wineùalong with a plummy upper-crust accent, expensive suits, and an encyclopedic knowledge of Western literatureùwas an essential element of Clifton FadimanÆs 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 LoverÆs Daughter traces the arc of a manÆs 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 FadimanÆs father, along with her relationship with him and her own less ardent relationship with wine, are the flesh. The Wine LoverÆs 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