The Tender Bar - Now a Major Film (Paperback, New ed)

**Now a major film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck** 'Highly entertaining . . . constructed as skilfully as a drink mixed by the author's Uncle Charlie' New York Times In 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. JR 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. When 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 & 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.

General

Imprint:	Sceptre
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2006
Authors:	J. R. Moehringer
Dimensions:	199 x 130 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	370
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-340-82883-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Press & journalism Books > Biography > General
LSN:	0-340-82883-8
Barcode:	9780340828830

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