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The Tender Bar : a Memoir by J. R. Moehringer, Juan José Estrella González is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Tender Bar : a Memoir about?

In 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. 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. 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 fathering-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.

Who reads The Tender Bar : a Memoir?

Author

J. R. Moehringer, Juan José Estrella González

Publisher

Hyperion;Hachette Books

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780739467060

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, History

Rating

3.94 / 5 (23,307 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14