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Tender Bar, The description
"Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me," asserts J.R. Moehringer, and his compelling memoir The Tender Bar is the story of how and why. A Pulitzer-Prize winning writer for the Los Angeles Times, Moehringer grew up fatherless in pub-heavy Manhasset, New York, in a ramshackle house crammed with cousins and ruled by an eccentric, unkind grandfather. Desperate for a paternal figure, he turns first to his father, a DJ whom he can only access via the radio (Moehringer calls him The Voice and pictures him as "talking smoke"). When The Voice suddenly disappears from the airwaves, Moehringer turns to his hairless Uncle Charlie, and subsequently, Uncle Charlie's place of employment--a bar called Dickens that soon takes center stage. While Moehringer may occasionally resort to an overwrought metaphor (the footsteps of his family sound like "storm troopers on stilts"), his writing moves at a quick clip and his tale of a dysfunctional but tightly knit community is warmly told. "While I fear that we're drawn to what abandons us, and to what seems most likely to abandon us, in the end I believe we're defined by what embraces us," Moehringer says, and his story makes us believe it. --Brangien Davis |
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Tender Bar, The Customer Reviews
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| I am still in the midst of reading the book - but, if you're looking for a book to read in the evening, before going to bed, to make you feel good, to laugh and the next moment have misty eyes, this is the right one for you. The author describes his life growing up in Long Island, son of a single mother and grandson of a hilarious grandfather, looking for an Ersatz-father which he finds many of in "The Tender Bar". Great reading, witty and sensitive writing. Absolutely wonderful! |
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