The Wine Lovers Daughter

Posted on 12 October 2018 by Anne Fadiman

A new 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, the celebrated multihyphenate and lover of wine Clifton Fadiman A renowned literary critic, editor, and radio host, Clifton was born in Brooklyn, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, and spent the rest of his life trying to get away from it.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 s escape from lower middle class Brooklyn to swanky Manhattan The Wine Lover s Daughter traces the arc of a man s infatuation, from the glass of cheap Graves he drank in 1927 in a Parisian department store to the Chateau 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 during the last years of his life, when he was blind but still buoyed, as he had always been, 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 A poignant and thoughtful exploration of love, ambition, class, family, and the pleasures of the palate, The Wine Lover s Daughter is a splendid return to form by one of our finest essayists. New Read The Wine Lovers Daughter Author Anne Fadiman For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Despite my hail fellow, well met attitude toward alcohol in general, I m not a big wine person That is, I m perfectly happy to drink grocery store zinfandels and moscatos which Clifton Fadiman would have scorned to pour into his stew if he had cooked, which, as his daughter tells us, he didn t , but I d rather have whiskey or rum or gin or vodka Still, I enjoyed The Wine Lover s Daughter A Memoir very much Even the parts about wine, which were painlessly instructive While Fadiman spe Despite my hail fellow, well met attitude toward alcohol in general, I m not a big wine person That is, I m perfectly happy to drink grocery store zinfa...Anne Fadiman is one of my favourite writers Her essay collection Ex Libris is one of my alltime favourite books But unfortunately her literary output is very thin Anne Fadiman is like the J.D.Salinger or Harper Lee of our times There are two essay collections, Ex Libris and At Large and at Small , and one non fiction book about the Hmong community called The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down , in her backlist She has also edited two essay collections, Rereadings Seventeen Writer Anne Fadiman is one of my favourite ...Reading Anne Fadiman is like hanging out with your super smart friend and hoping some of that intelligence rubs off on you She is a treat I heartily recommend any of her books, but for this one an interest in wine is helpful. The Wine Lover s Daughter A Memoir is a loving tribute to Clifton Fadiman from his daughter Anne Fadiman as she told of his love of wine and love of his books As she writes,Aside from his books, he loved nothing and no one longer,ardently, orfaithfully than he loved wineAnd,My father had long associated books and wine they both sparked conversation, they both were a lifetime project, they both were pleasurable to shelve, they were the only things he collected Fadiman was The Wine Lover s Daughter A Memoir is a loving tribute to Clifton Fadiman from his daughter Anne Fadiman as she told of his love of wine and love of his books As she writes,Aside from his books, he loved nothing and no one longer,ardently, orfaithfully than he loved wineAnd,My father had long associated books and wine they both sparked conversation, they both were a lifetime project, they both were pleasurable to shelve, they were the only things he collected Fadiman was born in Brooklyn in 1904 to Russian Jewish parents He learned to read at age four, becoming a voracious reader enjoying Sophocles, Dante, Milton and Melville by age thirteen, and soon followed with Shaw, Yeats, Wilde and Wells Graduating from high school at age fifteen, he went on to Columbia where he aspired to cross into Manhattan leaving his past b...An interesting and rather compelling biography of Fadiman s late father, a prolific book critic, and accomplished man Her writing is fantastic she never fails to be witty and charming, and there is a marvellous balance struck here The Wine Lover s Daughter is a compelling memoir, but I felt that...I related to the daughter about having a parent who has a dedicated passion that you then choose not to pursue and I related to the father who wanted to escape his roots so badly and thought that wine and fluent conversational skills in western literature would give him that tickets out or in.When the author asks her brother why they both didn t like wine and the wine world as much as their father did, he...3.5 stars So I enjoy books obviously , authors Anne and Clifton Fadiman and wine so I should have loved this memoir but by the end I was sort of tired of hearing about Clifton s obsession and Anne s ambivalence with wine Clifton Fadiman was a famous book critic who wrote the New Lifetime Reading Plan which sits on my night stand Anne is also a well known author who writes books about re...I cannot be unbiased when it comes to Anne Fadiman she was one of my favorite professors in college, and so much of what I know about writing I learned from her And also she was kind enough to blurb my book Clearly, this is not an objective review With that said The Wine Lover s Daughter was wonderful Every sentence is a carefully constructed piece of art A surprising, delightful detail lurks around each corner And in a year when everything seemed global and Trumpy and catastrophic, th I cannot be unbiased when it comes to Anne Fadiman she was one of my favorite professors in college, and so much of what I know about writing I learned from her And also she was kind enough to blurb my book Clearly, this is not an objective review With that said The Wine Lover s Daughter was wonderful Every sentence is a carefully constructed piece of art A surprising, delightful detail lurks around each corner And in a year when everything seemed global and Trumpy a...Oh my, this is just so, so good The narration is fabulous except I needed to listen at 1.25 speed only possible on my iPhone, not my iPod I would highly recommend listening over reading I loved every bit of it I remember Clifton Fadiman only slightly perhaps only because my father had one of his books Reading I ve Liked in his bookcase I already knew that his daughter Anne is an exceptionally good writer And oh, so witty Or he was Well, they both are She s every bit her father s Oh my, this is just so, so good The narration is fabulous except I needed to listen at 1.25 speed only possible on my iPhone, not my iPod I would highly recommend listening over reading I loved every bit of it I remember Clifton Fadiman only slightly perhaps only because my father had one of his books Reading I ve Liked in his bookcase I already knew that his daughter Anne is an exceptionally good writer And oh, so witty Or he was Well, they both are She s every bit her father s daughter, exce...An absolutely lovely tribute to a parent Anne Fadiman is a beautiful writer and every sentence breathes love and admiration for her father and his quirks and strengths and weaknesses and background and journey.

English
12 October 2018

Anne Fadiman