{"product_id":"the-tender-bar-a-memoir-paperback-1","title":"The Tender Bar: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJ. R. Moehringer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSoon to be a major Amazon film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar, in the tradition of \u003ci\u003eThis Boy's Life\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Liar's Club.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJ.R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before J.R. spoke his first word. Sitting on the stoop, pressing an ear to the radio, J.R. would strain to hear in that plummy baritone the secrets of masculinity and identity. Though J.R.'s mother was his world, his rock, he craved something more, something faintly and hauntingly audible only in The Voice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt eight years old, suddenly unable to find The Voice on the radio, J.R. turned in desperation to the bar on the corner, where he found a rousing chorus of new voices. The alphas along the bar--including J.R.'s Uncle Charlie, a Humphrey Bogart look-alike; Colt, a Yogi Bear sound-alike; and Joey D, a softhearted brawler--took J.R. to the beach, to ballgames, and ultimately into their circle. They taught J.R., tended him, and provided a kind of fathering-by-committee. Torn between the stirring example of his mother and the lurid romance of the bar, J.R. tried to forge a self somewhere in the center. But when it was time for J.R. to leave home, the bar became an increasingly seductive sanctuary, a place to return and regroup during his picaresque journeys. Time and again the bar offered shelter from failure, rejection, heartbreak--and eventually from reality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the grand tradition of landmark memoirs, \u003ci\u003eThe Tender Bar \u003c\/i\u003eis suspenseful, wrenching, and achingly funny. A classic American story of self-invention and escape, of the fierce love between a single mother and an only son, it's also a moving portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, and an unforgettable depiction of how men remain, at heart, lost boys. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a best book of the year by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, Esquire, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR's \"Fresh Air,\" and \u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Booksense, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller \u003cbr\u003eBooksense Pick \u003cbr\u003eBorders New Voices Finalist \u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Books for a Better Life First Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ.R. Moehringer\u003c\/b\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2000, is a former national correspondent for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e and a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Moehringer is the author of the\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003ebestselling novel Sutton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e and coauthor of \u003ci\u003eOpen\u003c\/i\u003e by Andre Agassi and \u003ci\u003eShoedog\u003c\/i\u003e by Phil Knight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 432\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 30, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48210301452536,"sku":"9780306828058","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/5629\/7208\/files\/SmtFZ216RDFkcGVtSEdVVlNMNGY5UT09.webp?v=1775667013","url":"https:\/\/barneysbooksellers.com\/products\/the-tender-bar-a-memoir-paperback-1","provider":"Barney's Book Sellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}