The Wine Lover's Daughter av Anne Fadiman

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<p><b>A memoir by the celebrated essayist that explores her relationship with her father, a lover of wine</b><br><br>In <i>The Wine Lover¿s Daughter</i>, 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.<br><br>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. <i>The Wine Lover¿s Daughter</i> traces the arc of a man¿s infatuation, from the glass of cheap Graves he drank in Paris in 1927; through the Ch¿au 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