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Wine Reads Jay McInerney

Wine Reads By Jay McInerney

Wine Reads by Jay McInerney


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Summary

From celebrated novelist Jay McInerney, whose extensive writing on wine has been called 'crisp, stylish and very funny' (New York Times Book Review), comes an delectable collection of great writing about wine

Wine Reads Summary

Wine Reads: A Literary Anthology of Wine Writing by Jay McInerney

Country & Townhouse's Best Book for Christmas, 2018

A delectable anthology celebrating the finest writing on wine.

In this richly literary anthology, Jay McInerney - bestselling novelist and acclaimed wine columnist for Town & Country, the Wall Street Journal and House and Garden - selects over twenty pieces of memorable fiction and nonfiction about the making, selling and, of course, drinking of fine wine.

Including excerpts from novels, short fiction, memoir and narrative nonfiction, Wine Reads features big names in the trade and literary heavyweights alike. We follow Kermit Lynch to the Northern Rhone in a chapter from his classic Adventures on the Wine Route. In an excerpt from Between Meals, long-time New Yorker writer A. J. Liebling raises feeding and imbibing on a budget in Paris into something of an art form - and discovers a very good rose from just west of the Rhone. Michael Dibdin's fictional Venetian detective Aurelio Zen gets a lesson in Barolo, Barbaresco and Brunello vintages from an eccentric celebrity. Jewish-Czech writer and gourmet Joseph Wechsberg visits the medieval Chateau d'Yquem to sample different years of the roi des vins alongside a French connoisseur who had his first taste of wine at age four.
Also showcasing an iconic scene from Rex Pickett's Sideways and work by Jancis Robinson, Benjamin Wallace and McInerney himself, this is an essential volume for any disciple of Bacchus.

Wine Reads Reviews

One of the most gifted writers of his generation...whatever he does makes fascinating reading. * Observer *
No contemporary author quite matches Jay McInerney. * Mail on Sunday *
A scabrously scintillating stylist. * Guardian *
His wine judgments are sound, his anecdotes witty and his literary references impeccable. * New York Times *
The best wine writer in America. * Salon *

About Jay McInerney

Jay McInerney is the author of twelve books, most recently Bright, Precious Days. His other novels include Bright Lights, Big City, Model Behaviour and The Good Life, which received the Grand Prix Litteraire. He writes a monthly wine column for Town & Country and was previously the wine columnist for the Wall Street Journal and House and Garden. Many of those columns were collected in Bacchus and Me and A Hedonist in the Cellar. In 2006 McInerney won the James Beard MFK Fisher Award for Distinguished Writing.

Additional information

GOR009488418
9781611856279
1611856272
Wine Reads: A Literary Anthology of Wine Writing by Jay McInerney
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
20181101
400
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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