The Tender Bar
Now a Major Film Directed by George Clooney and Starring Ben Affleck
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- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
12 October 2006
Summary
JR Moehringer grew up listening for a voice, the voice of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before JR spoke his first words. As a boy, JR would press his ear to a battered clock radio, straining to hear in that resonant voice the secrets of identity and masculinity. When the voice disappeared, JR found new voices in the bar on the corner. A grand old New York saloon, the bar was a sanctuary for all sorts of men – cops and poets, actors and lawyers, gamblers and stumblebums. Th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780340828830 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0340828838 |
| Author: | J.R. Moehringer |
| Publisher: | Hodder & Stoughton |
| Imprint: | Sceptre |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 12 October 2006 |
| Weight: | 304g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 25mm |
| Series: | Sceptre |
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Critics Review
The only thing wrong with this terrific debut is that there has to be a closing time.
The best memoirist of his kind since Mary Karr wrote The Liars’ Club … hilarious stumblebum wisdom and born raconteur’s ease. Highly entertaining … constructed as skilfully as a drink mixed by the author’s Uncle Charlie. - New York Times
The best memoirist of his kind since Mary Karr wrote The Liars’ Club … hilarious stumblebum wisdom and born raconteur’s ease. Highly entertaining … constructed as skilfully as a drink mixed by the author’s Uncle Charlie. - New York TimesA straight-up account of masculinity, maturity and memory that leaves a smile on the face and an ache in the heart. - Kirkus ReviewsIn his gimlet-eyed memoir, The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer lovingly and affectingly toasts a boyhood spent on a barstool. - Vanity FairThe best thing about The Tender Bar is that it is many stories in one. Moehringer has hours and hours of stories that any bar hound worth his stool would bend both ears to drink in. Thankfully, the writer has opted to put them down on paper. - Entertainment WeeklyThe only thing wrong with this terrific debut is that there has to be a closing time. - NewsweekAbout The Author
J.R. Moehringer
J R Moehringer is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist who has written for the Los Angeles Times and many others. He lives in Denver, Colorado.
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