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Book SynopsisIn the tradition of THIS BOY'S LIFE and THE LIAR'S CLUB, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar.
Trade ReviewSimply a wonderful book about a heaven of a life that had everything going against it except intense love -- James Salter, author of All That Is
Moehringer has crafted a yearning, lyrical account of his fatherless youth and the companionship he found . . . among the Dickensian characters at a neighborhood bar * Los Angeles Times Book Review *
The Tender Bar will make you thirsty for that life - its camaraderie, its hilarity, its seductive, dangerous wisdom * Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls *
A beautiful, gravelly love letter * New York Times Book Review *
Supremely great -- Graydon Carter
J R Moehringer has found a new perfect * Esquire *
Moehringer writes with a survivor's wisdom . . . The Tender Bar is a memoir, but has the texture of a novel. * Sunday Telegraph *
'The best memoirist of his kind since Mary Karr wrote The Liars' Club . . . hilarious stumblebum wisdom and born raconteur's ease. Highly entertaining . . . constructed as skilfully as a drink mixed by the author's Uncle Charlie.' *
New York Times *
The best memoirist of his kind since Mary Karr wrote The Liars' Club . . . hilarious stumblebum wisdom and born raconteur's ease. Highly entertaining . . . constructed as skilfully as a drink mixed by the author's Uncle Charlie. *
New York Times *
A straight-up account of masculinity, maturity and memory that leaves a smile on the face and an ache in the heart. *
Kirkus Reviews *
In his gimlet-eyed memoir, The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer lovingly and affectingly toasts a boyhood spent on a barstool. *
Vanity Fair *
The best thing about The Tender Bar is that it is many stories in one. Moehringer has hours and hours of stories that any bar hound worth his stool would bend both ears to drink in. Thankfully, the writer has opted to put them down on paper. *
Entertainment Weekly *
The only thing wrong with this terrific debut is that there has to be a closing time. *
Newsweek *
