Martini A Memoir

Author: Frank Moorhouse

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Price : 35.00 AUD
ISBN : 9781740513128
Publisher : Alfred A. Knopf
Imprint : Alfred A. Knopf
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Weight (g) : 0.418
Publication date : 01 November 2005
Dimensions : 218mm X 145mm X 25mm
Produced in : Australia
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Author : Frank Moorhouse
Bind : hardback with dustjacket
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Pages : 240
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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.