The Wine Lover S Daughter


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The Wine Lover S Daughter


The Wine Lover S Daughter
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Author : Anne Fadiman
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2017-11-07

The Wine Lover S Daughter written by Anne Fadiman and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


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 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.



The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down


The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down
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Author : Anne Fadiman
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 1998-09-30

The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down written by Anne Fadiman and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-09-30 with Social Science categories.


Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understanding between them led to tragedy. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Current Interest, and the Salon Book Award, Anne Fadiman's compassionate account of this cultural impasse is literary journalism at its finest. ______ Lia Lee 1982-2012 Lia Lee died on August 31, 2012. She was thirty years old and had been in a vegetative state since the age of four. Until the day of her death, her family cared for her lovingly at home.



Ex Libris


Ex Libris
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Author : Anne Fadiman
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2011-04-01

Ex Libris written by Anne Fadiman and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-01 with Literary Criticism categories.


Anne Fadiman is--by her own admission--the sort of person who learned about sex from her father's copy of Fanny Hill, whose husband buys her 19 pounds of dusty books for her birthday, and who once found herself poring over her roommate's 1974 Toyota Corolla manual because it was the only written material in the apartment that she had not read at least twice. This witty collection of essays recounts a lifelong love affair with books and language. For Fadiman, as for many passionate readers, the books she loves have become chapters in her own life story. Writing with remarkable grace, she revives the tradition of the well-crafted personal essay, moving easily from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. As someone who played at blocks with her father's 22-volume set of Trollope ("My Ancestral Castles") and who only really considered herself married when she and her husband had merged collections ("Marrying Libraries"), she is exquisitely well equipped to expand upon the art of inscriptions, the perverse pleasures of compulsive proof-reading, the allure of long words, and the satisfactions of reading out loud. There is even a foray into pure literary gluttony--Charles Lamb liked buttered muffin crumbs between the leaves, and Fadiman knows of more than one reader who literally consumes page corners. Perfectly balanced between humor and erudition, Ex Libris establishes Fadiman as one of our finest contemporary essayists.



The Italian Sister


The Italian Sister
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Author : Christa Polkinhorn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-03-02

The Italian Sister written by Christa Polkinhorn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-02 with categories.


Sofia embarks on a wild journey from California to Tuscany to claim the vineyard she inherited and meet the sister she doesn't know. As if this wasn't turmoil enough, someone is out to kill her.



Daughter Of The Pirate King


Daughter Of The Pirate King
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Author : Tricia Levenseller
language : en
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Release Date : 2017-02-28

Daughter Of The Pirate King written by Tricia Levenseller and has been published by Feiwel & Friends this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-28 with Young Adult Fiction categories.


There will be plenty of time for me to beat him soundly once I've gotten what I came for. Sent on a mission to retrieve an ancient hidden map—the key to a legendary treasure trove—seventeen-year-old pirate captain Alosa deliberately allows herself to be captured by her enemies, giving her the perfect opportunity to search their ship. More than a match for the ruthless pirate crew, Alosa has only one thing standing between her and the map: her captor, the unexpectedly clever and unfairly attractive first mate Riden. But not to worry, for Alosa has a few tricks up her sleeve, and no lone pirate can stop the Daughter of the Pirate King. In Daughter of the Pirate King, debut author Tricia Levenseller blends action, adventure, romance, and a little bit of magic into a thrilling pirate tale.



The Wine Lover S Coloring Book


The Wine Lover S Coloring Book
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Author : Louise Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2012

The Wine Lover S Coloring Book written by Louise Wilson and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.


The Wine Lover's Coloring Book is the perfect gift for the wine lover in your life. Beginners and sommeliers alike will love this fun and informative approach to learning about wine. Tour the wine regions of the world through beautiful full color maps, and then test your knowledge by coloring your own map. Wine education is now approachable for everyone.



The Winemaker S Daughter


The Winemaker S Daughter
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Author : Timothy Egan
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2007-12-18

The Winemaker S Daughter written by Timothy Egan and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-12-18 with Fiction categories.


Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times national correspondent Timothy Egan turns to fiction with The Winemaker's Daughter, a lyrical and gripping novel about the harsh realities and ecological challenges of turning water into wine. When Brunella Cartolano visits her father on the family vineyard in the basin of the Cascade Mountains, she's shocked by the devastation caused by a four-year drought. Passionate about the Pacific Northwest ecology, Brunella, a cultural impact analyst, is embroiled in a battle to save the Seattle waterfront from redevelopment and to preserve a fisherman's livelihood. But when a tragedy among fire-jumpers results from a failure of the water supply–her brother Niccolo is among those lost--Brunella finds herself with another mission: to find out who is sabotaging the area's water supply. Joining forces with a Native American Forest Ranger, she discovers deep rifts rooted in the region's complicated history, and tries to save her father's vineyard from drying up for good . . . even as violence and corruption erupt around her.



Corked


Corked
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Author : Kathryn Borel
language : en
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release Date : 2010-02-16

Corked written by Kathryn Borel and has been published by Grand Central Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


Meet Kathryn Borel, bon vivant and undutiful daughter. Now meet her father, Philippe, former chef, eccentric genius, and wine aficionado extraordinaire. Kathryn is like her father in every way but one: she's totally ignorant when it comes to wine. And although Philippe has devoted untold parenting hours to delivering impassioned oenological orations, she has managed to remain unenlightened. But after an accident and a death, Kathryn realizes that by shutting herself off to her father's greatest passion, she will never really know him. Accordingly, she proposes a drunken father-daughter road trip. Corked is the uncensored account of their tour through the great wine regions of France. Uproarious, poignant, painfully introspective, and filled with cunning little details about wine, this is a book for any reader who has sought a connection with a complex family member or wanted to overcome the paralyzing terror of being faced with a restaurant wine list.



Fire In The Vineyard


Fire In The Vineyard
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Author : Christa Polkinhorn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-12-13

Fire In The Vineyard written by Christa Polkinhorn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-13 with categories.


When wine disappears from his winery and an arson fire kills his close friend, Robert Segantino, owner of the estate, is faced with the roughest ordeal of his career: someone, perhaps a member of his own family, wants to destroy him. Forced to evaluate his goals in life and his relationship to those around him, Robert turns to his uncle for help.



Things I Should Have Told My Daughter


Things I Should Have Told My Daughter
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Author : Pearl Cleage
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-04-08

Things I Should Have Told My Daughter written by Pearl Cleage and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


The award-winning author of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day reminisces on the art of balancing family, politics and a writing career during her pre-fame years in the 1970s and 1980s, tracing her rise from a small-time columnist and her friendships with such notables as Richard Pryor, Avery Brooks and Jesse Jackson.