Martini - A Memoir
Author(s): Frank Moorhouse
J.D. Rockefeller is said to have once remarked to friends: 'Before choosing your hotel, order a martini cocktail at the bar. Then you'll know if the hotel is good enough for you...' At once a celebration of the most elegant, arcane and mysterious cocktail of them all - the martini - and a lyrical memoir of friendship and love won and lost, MARTINI: A MEMOIR is Frank Moorhouse at his melancholy and hilarious best. As he muses on the aesthetics of martini lore - olive or twist, shaken or stirred, Dorothy Parker or James Bond? - and the nature of drinking, Moorhouse reflects on the role of the martini in his own life in prose as dry and intoxicating as the martini itself.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Alfred A. Knopf
- : Alfred A. Knopf
- : 0.418
- : 01 November 2005
- : 218mm X 145mm X 25mm
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : 240
- : hardback with dustjacket
- : Frank Moorhouse