{"product_id":"tender-bar-von-j-r-moehringer","title":"The Tender Bar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNOW A MAJOR FILM DIRECTED BY GEORGE CLOONEY AND STARRING BEN AFFLECK\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Highly entertaining . . . constructed as skilfully as a drink mixed by the author's Uncle Charlie' New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Moehringer writes with a survivor's wisdom . . . The Tender Bar is a memoir, but has the texture of a novel' Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the rich tradition of bestselling memoirs about self-invention, The Tender Bar is by turns riveting, moving, and achingly funny. An evocative portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, it's also a touching depiction of how some men remain lost boys.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJR Moehringer grew up listening for a voice, the voice of his missing father, a DJ 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. The flamboyant characters along the bar taught JR, tended him, and provided a kind of fatherhood by committee. Torn between his love for his mother and the lure of the bar, JR forged a boyhood somewhere in the middle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the time came to leave home, the bar became a way station -- from JR's entrance to Yale, where he floundered as a scholarship student; to Lord \u0026amp; Taylor, where he spent a humbling stint peddling housewares; to the New York Times, where he became a faulty cog in a vast machine. The bar offered shelter from failure, from rejection, and eventually from reality, until at last the bar turned JR away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A wonderful book . . . everyone in it is incredibly alive, everyone shines, and every vice is transformed into something glorious' James Salter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJ.R. Moehringer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2000, is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Moehringer is the author of the memoir The Tender Bar and the bestselling novel Sutton, and co-author of Open by Andre Agassi, Shoedog by Phil Knight and Spare by Prince Harry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781529394429\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003eA Memoir\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Autorenwelt Shop","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781529394429","offer_id":40258869198941,"sku":"9781529394429","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/02b2dae9-0fa5-4b4e-827c-4fd78b60ece6.jpg?v=1780807469","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/tender-bar-von-j-r-moehringer","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}