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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 Château 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.
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 Château 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.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Kochen & Backen |
| Rubrik: | Essen & Trinken |
| Thema: | Getränke |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9780374537944 |
| ISBN-10: | 0374537941 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Fadiman, Anne |
| Hersteller: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr) |
| Maße: | 190 x 129 x 30 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Anne Fadiman |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 13.11.2018 |
| Gewicht: | 0,203 kg |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2018 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Kochen & Backen |
| Rubrik: | Essen & Trinken |
| Thema: | Getränke |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| Inhalt: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| ISBN-13: | 9780374537944 |
| ISBN-10: | 0374537941 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Fadiman, Anne |
| Hersteller: | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr) |
| Maße: | 190 x 129 x 30 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Anne Fadiman |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 13.11.2018 |
| Gewicht: | 0,203 kg |
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