{"product_id":"2940170703685","title":"The Wine Lover's Daughter: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA new memoir by the celebrated essayist that explores her relationship with her father, a lover of wine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Wine Lover's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 ardent desire. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Wine Lover's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e traces the arc of a man's infatuation from the glass of cheap Graves he drank in Paris in 1927; through 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 in his last years, when he was blind but still buoyed, as always, by hedonism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWine 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Wine Lover's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e is a poignant exploration of love, ambition, class, family, and the pleasures of the palate by one of our finest essayists.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47105102938352,"sku":"2940170703685","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170703685_p0.jpg?v=1763715305","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170703685","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}