# Wine Lover's Daughter

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- Authors: [Anne Fadiman](https://www.bookquiver.com/anne-fadiman)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2018-11-13
- Genres: Biography: general, Autobiography: general, Reportage, journalism or collected columns

## Description

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 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.

## Editions

### Wine Lover's Daughter

- Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- ISBN: 978-03-7453-794-4
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2018-11-13
- Language: en_US