Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/1323/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Wine Lover's Daughter Subtitle: A Memoir Author: Anne Fadiman Narrator: Anne Fadiman Format: Unabridged Length: 6 hrs and 53 mins Language: English Release date: 11-09-17 Publisher: Recorded Books Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 8 votes Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Personal Memoirs Publisher's Summary: A new memoir by the celebrated essayist that explores her relationship with her father, a lover of wine In 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 ardent 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 Chateau Lafite-Rothschild 1904 he drank to celebrate his 80th 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. Members Reviews: Read more Anne Fadiman Any book by Anne Fadiman is great. Four Stars Delightful story and wonderful wine history. A loving memoir that is beautifully written Forget wine. Anne Fadiman is the daughter of a man who dedicated his life to books. Itâs pretty clear that while she might not have inherited her father Clifton Fadimanâs love of wine, she most definitely has his gift for writing and love of all things literary as displayed in her memoir. Not only has Anne written a loving portrayal of her fatherâs life and work, she isnât hiding anything about who he was. She shows where her father came from, his first-generation American roots as a Jewish boy growing up with Russian immigrant parents in Brooklyn, with two successful brothers, whom he was competing with as a young man. Clifton, known as Kip, put himself through college, and essentially reinvented himself, but also turned his back on his Jewishness, thinking this was a way to get ahead in the world. While he lead an extremely successful career as an editor, author, one of the founders of Book-of-the-Month Club, and more, in his heart, he wanted to be a scholar. He pursued his love of fine wine as voraciously as he pursued his love of the written word. Anne shares terrific anecdotes from childhood through adulthood and how at each phase, her fatherâs deep influence and their close relationship helped shape who she is. I was moved by this touching look about a daughter who admired her father and knew at a young age that he had a vast knowledge of something that she was very much interested in and he was more than willing to share with her, no matter that she was a child. Or that she was a girl. Given the time that she grew up. This admiration carried through until the day he died at age 95. A warmhearted memoir of the life of Anne Fadiman's father Hard as it may be to believe, there was a time when millions of Americans werenât embarrassed at the thought of seeking intellectual attainment.