{"product_id":"the-tender-bar-paperback","title":"The Tender Bar (Paperback)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Now a major film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nIn 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\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nJR 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\r\n\u003cbr\u003e\r\nWhen 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"J. R. Moehringer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68134652412185,"sku":"9781529394429","price":99.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1012\/7844\/9945\/files\/358381_618e7c76d4f704.63435788_9781529394429.jpg?v=1793372957","url":"https:\/\/bigbadbooksale.co.za\/products\/the-tender-bar-paperback","provider":"bigbadbooksale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}