The Winemaker's Daughter

by Timothy Egan

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140004099X
• ISBN13: 9781400040995
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 305 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.6" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Brilliant

Hey, lighten up, everybody. This guy is a brilliant writer. His details about water, wine, and women (or at least his one great woman, Brunella, who may have an unfortunate name--and I'm not sure it's better than Barola, which would have been more fitting--but who is effervescently both sensual and sexual) are deep and true and give the novel a nice backbone. True, the story doesn't quite hold together. But it's better for Egan to have bitten off too much than to have tried to spit out the puny efforts that pass for most fiction today (and back in the earlier part of this decade, when he wrote this). This novel has a great sense of place--a fictional terroir that's deeply satisfying. And Brunella is no mere clone either but the real thing, the equivalent of a wine of contemplation.