The Wine Lover's Daughter

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The Wine Lover's Daughter
272 pages; Farrar, Straus and Giroux
If this warm, nimble memoir focused only on the writer's delightfully snobbish father, critic and oenophile Clifton Fadiman, it would be worth the price of admission. But it's about so much more: the craft of writing, Jewish assimilation, the civilizing effects of hedonism...and, of course, vino.