| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
256 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-248). |
| Summary |
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 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. |
| Contents |
Thwick -- Civilization -- Wager -- Ardt -- Gods -- Kismet -- Homesick -- Multihyphenate -- Initiation -- Counterfeit -- Demeatballization -- Milkshake -- Jew -- Oakling -- Drunk -- High -- Vintage -- Birthday -- VIP -- Impotence -- Taste -- Memorabilia -- Port. |
| Subject |
Fadiman, Anne, 1953- -- Family.
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Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999.
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Fadiman, Anne, 1953- (OCoLC)fst00410169
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Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999. (OCoLC)fst00046661
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Women journalists -- United States -- Biography.
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Fathers and daughters -- Biography.
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Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography.
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Authors -- Biography.
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Editors -- United States -- Biography.
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Wine and wine making -- Miscellanea.
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Authors. (OCoLC)fst00821688
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Editors. (OCoLC)fst00902475
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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Fathers and daughters. (OCoLC)fst00921890
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Intellectuals. (OCoLC)fst00975799
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Wine and wine making. (OCoLC)fst01175907
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Women journalists. (OCoLC)fst01178072
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Miscellanea. (OCoLC)fst01423854
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Biographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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| ISBN |
9780374228088 (hardcover) |
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0374228086 (hardcover) |
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