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A new memoir by the famous essayist that explores her relationship with her daddy, a fan of wines In The Wines Lover's Daughter, Anne Fadiman examines - with all her characteristic wit and sense - her relationship with her daddy, Clifton Fadiman, a renowned literary critic, editor, and radio sponsor whose greatest love was wines. An appreciation of wines - along with a plummy upper-crust accent, expensive suits, and an encyclopedic knowledge of Western books - was an essential factor of Clifton Fadiman's get away from from lower-middle-class Brooklyn to swanky Manhattan. But wines was not only a class-vaulting accessory; it was an subject of ardent desire. The Wines Lover's Daughter traces the arc of your man's infatuation from the wine glass of cheap Graves he drank in Paris in 1927; through the Chateau Lafite-Rothschild 1904 he drank to enjoy his 80th birthday, when he and the bottle were exactly the same era; to the wines that suffered him in his previous years, when he was blind but still buoyed, as always, by hedonism. Wines is the spinal column of this touching memoir; the life and character of Fadiman's daddy, along with her relationship with him and her own less ardent relationship with wine, are the flesh. The Wines Lover's Daughter is a poignant exploration of love, ambition, class, family, and the pleasures of the palate by one of our finest essayists.
