Bedford Public Library

The wine lover's daughter, a memoir, Anne Fadiman

eng

Includes bibliographical references

autobiography

photographs

no index present

non fiction

The wine lover's daughter

bibliography

Anne Fadiman

a memoir

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 Ch?teau 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

Thwick -- Civilization -- Wager -- Ardt -- Gods -- Kismet -- Homesick -- Multihyphenate -- Initiation -- Counterfeit -- Demeatballization -- Milkshake -- Jew -- Oakling -- Drunk -- High -- Vintage -- Birthday -- VIP -- Impotence -- Taste -- Memorabilia -- Port