{"product_id":"tender-bar","title":"Tender Bar","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNOW A MAJOR FILM DIRECTED BY GEORGE CLOONEY AND STARRING BEN AFFLECK\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Highly entertaining'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Moehringer writes with a survivor''s wisdom''\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the rich tradition of bestselling memoirs about self-invention, \u003ci\u003eThe Tender Bar\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJR 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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 \u0026amp; Taylor, where he spent a humbling stint peddling housewares; to the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''A wonderful book . . . everyone in it is incredibly alive, everyone shines, and every vice is transformed into something glorious'' James Salter, author of \u003ci\u003eAll That Is\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJ.R. Moehringer\u003c\/b\u003e, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 2000, is a former national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times and a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Moehringer is the author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eThe Tender Bar \u003c\/i\u003eand the bestselling novel \u003ci\u003eSutton\u003c\/i\u003e, and co-author of \u003ci\u003eOpen \u003c\/i\u003eby Andre Agassi, \u003ci\u003eShoedog \u003c\/i\u003eby Phil Knight and \u003ci\u003eSpare \u003c\/i\u003eby Prince Harry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57319246233982,"sku":"NW9780340828830","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780340828830.jpg?v=1778711475","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/tender-bar","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}