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Fadiman, Anne, 1953-
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Fadiman, Anne, 1953- -- Family.
Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Editors -- United States -- Biography.
Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography.
Fathers and daughters -- Biography.
Authors -- United States -- Biography.
Wine and wine making -- Miscellanea.
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Fadiman, Anne, 1953-
Fadiman, Anne, 1953- -- Family.
Fadiman, Clifton, 1904-1999.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Editors -- United States -- Biography.
Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography.
Fathers and daughters -- Biography.
Authors -- United States -- Biography.
Wine and wine making -- Miscellanea.
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The wine lover's daughter : a memoir / Anne
Fadiman
.
by
Fadiman
, Anne, 1953-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Call #:
814.54 F145w
Subjects
Fadiman
, Anne, 1953- -- Family.
Fadiman
,
Clifton
,
1904-1999
.
Journalists -- United States -- Biography.
Editors -- United States -- Biography.
Intellectuals -- United States -- Biography.
Fathers and daughters -- Biography.
Authors -- United States -- Biography.
Wine and wine making -- Miscellanea.
ISBN:
9780374228088 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
256 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Thwick -- Civilization -- Wager -- Ardt -- Gods -- Kismet -- Homesick -- Multihyphenate -- Initiation -- Counterfeit -- Demeatballization -- Milkshake -- Jew -- Oakling -- Drunk -- High -- Vintage -- Birthday -- VIP -- Impotence -- Taste -- Memorabilia -- Port.
Summary:
"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. This book 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. A poignant exploration of love, ambition, class, family, and the pleasures of the palate by one of our finest essayists. Anne
Fadiman
is the author of The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. She has also written two essay collections, At Large and At Small and Ex Libris. She is the Francis Writer-in-Residence at Yale.
Genre:
Memoirs.
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