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Title details for The Wine Lover's Daughter by Anne Fadiman - Available

The Wine Lover's Daughter

A Memoir

by Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman
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A new 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 ardent 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 Chateau 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.

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  • Release date

    November 7, 2017

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781501966927
      • File size: 198713 KB
      • Duration: 06:53:59

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Anne Fadiman narrates this audiobook with affection and purpose. Her memoir focuses on her relationship with her famous father, Clifton Fadiman, so the style of her reading blends history and memory. Anne reads crisply in a didactic tone that permits her to be both observer and subject. The emphasis rarely wanders from her author/editor/anthologist/wine-loving father. An Anglophile and admirer of upper-class culture, Clifton Fadiman never overcame his origins as a Jewish boy from Brooklyn. Despite her father's passion and her best efforts, Anne doesn't love wine. Her plight makes her seek out the mysteries of taste, and she learns that the fault lies not in her stars but in her taste buds and genes. A.D.M. © AudioFile 2017, Portland, Maine

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