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Original Title:	The Tender Bar: A Memoir
ISBN:	0786888768 (ISBN13: 9780786888764)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	J.R. Moehringer
Literary Awards:	Audie Award for Narration by the Author or Authors (2006)

The Tender Bar: A Memoir

J.R. Moehringer

Paperback | Pages: 416 pages

Rating: 3.96 | 28403 Users | 2645 Reviews

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Title	:	The Tender Bar: A Memoir
Author	:	J.R. Moehringer
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 416 pages
Published	:	August 1st 2006 by Hyperion (first published 2005)
Categories	:	Autobiography. Memoir. Nonfiction. Biography

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In the grand tradition of landmark memoirs - 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.

J.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.

At 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. Cops and poets, bookies and soldiers, movie stars and stumblebums, all sorts of men gathered in the bar to tell their stories and forget their cares. 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 fatherhood-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—from his grandfather's tumbledown house to the hallowed towers and spires of Yale; from his absurd stint selling housewares at Lord & Taylor to his dream job at the New York Times, which became a nightmare when he found himself a faulty cog in a vast machine. Time and again the bar offered shelter from failure, rejection, heartbreak--and eventually from reality.

In the grand tradition of landmark memoirs, The Tender Bar is 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.

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I really loved The Tender Bar! Any book that can sweep you into a story and its beautifully rendered characters (all the more beautiful, poignant, and powerful because they are real) is worthy of recognition, and I found this memoir to be fascinating and enormously moving. It was also interesting from its snapshot of a slice of American and local history: Manhasset, Long Island, in the 70s and 80s and into the early 21st century. The author, being raised by his mother in her father's

I absolutely loved this brilliantly written and heartfelt memoir. Uncle Charlie, Cager and Steve are my new found heroes and all are (were) the epitome of cool. You don't mind if I say epitome, do you? So glad I finally read this...Highly recommend!

Dear J. R. Moehringer, this is one of the best memoirs I've ever read. I finished it in tears. Kudos!

I initially fell in love with this memoir, and for 150 pages could not put it down. This is when Moehringer describes his childhood in a dysfunctional broken-down home in Long Island and his search on the radio air waves for his missing father's voice. He writes hauntingly and convincingly of his childhood anxieties, much of which center on protecting his mother, and his drive to take care of her. He describes his early discovery of the neighborhood bar, where his Uncle Charlie worked, and found

Jeesh. I picked this up for my husband's birthday and decided to read it myself. I was so excited. I got it from a local book store where one of the book clerks wrote an amazing review. I thought it was going to be about bar culture and the magical and redemptive qualities that can be found in your local bar/pub. I was wrong. It's mostly a memoir of Moehinger's boyhood and college days at Yale. The lack of male role models is a constant and boring theme that runs throughout the book. The love of

I found this book by reading Andre Aggasi's memoir, "Open", in which he describes how taken he was by "The Tender Bar" and how this led to his collaboration with J.R. Moehringer. I was equally engrossed in the book and could hardly put it down over the course of a week or so during which I read the entire thing (which, for me, is 2x-3x my normal turnover rate for a book of comparable length). The book is a wonderful memoir of a tough childhood (J.R. Moehringer grew up without a father in his

While reading, I wrote this:Working on it. Mom's book club. Came in a box with Valentine's Day goodies, including:- A heart-shaped potholder- Cups with hearts on them- Candy hearts- A heart-shaped PEZ dispenser- Pink footie socks- 3 or maybe 4 V-Day cards, they keep turning up in odd places, like wedged into The Tender Bar.- Pink rubber duckies with hearts on them- My camera battery chargerA good story. A bicentennial sofa. A little deliberate, but I'm still going.After reading, I write this:It