Wine Lover'S Daughter

Wine Lover'S Daughter

A memoir by the celebrated essayist that explores her relationship with her father, a lover of wineIn 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 Ch