false <![CDATA[The Tender Bar: A Memoir]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172168507m/144977.jpg 144977 17 "Long before it legally served me, the bar saved me," asserts J.R. Moehringer, and his compelling memoir <i>The Tender Bar</i> 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. <i>--Brangien Davis</i> 1100660 2005 The Tender Bar: A Memoir total:4302|5:1034|4:1805|3:1077|2:327|1:59| 4302 16334 5786 827 5 7 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Sun Jul 01 07:09:28 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 27 21:06:49 -0700 2007 What's This Book About?
From The Tender Bar by J. R. Moehringer:

"I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream filling in an Oreo, should stick to comic strips and soap operas. . . . Every book worth a damn i...more...]]> 2 5 false true Sat Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 15 07:51:29 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 16:07:16 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 3 false false Fri Nov 02 11:27:59 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 02 12:08:12 -0700 2007
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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
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Inadvertently the last two boo...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Apr 04 17:01:26 -0700 2009 Sat Apr 04 17:02:31 -0700 2009
It reminded me in some ways of the Glass Castle, where ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Aug 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 13:31:06 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 15 07:01:45 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jun 04 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun May 24 20:42:51 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 08:14:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Oct 01 07:29:01 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 10 16:31:29 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 13:39:59 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 12:46:46 -0700 2009 because of his unique style and character depictions of the people and places who shaped his life.
The place called Manhasset,NY where JR grew up was a safe harbor from the caos of Manhatten. Withi...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:36:19 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:36:19 -0800 2009 Like the author himself, critics fell in love with the colorful cast of regulars who populate The Tender Bar. They were also moved by Moehringer's poignant if overly sentimentalized, sometimes manipulative, account of the place where he learned what it means to be a man__or at least drink like one. ...

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