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The Wine Lover's Daughter
- A Memoir
Af: Anne Fadiman
Engelsk Paperback
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The Wine Lover's Daughter
- A Memoir
Af: Anne Fadiman
Engelsk Paperback
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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.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
272
ISBN-13:
9780374537944
Indbinding:
Paperback
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ISBN-10:
0374537941
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Udg. Dato:
13 nov 2018
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
191mm
Højde:
127mm
Forlag:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Oplagsdato:
13 nov 2018
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