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Simply a wonderful book about a heaven of a life that had everything going against it except intense love
Moehringer has crafted a yearning, lyrical account of his fatherless youth and the companionship he found . . . among the Dickensian characters at a neighborhood bar
The Tender Bar will make you thirsty for that life - its camaraderie, its hilarity, its seductive, dangerous wisdom
A beautiful, gravelly love letter
Supremely great
J R Moehringer has found a new perfect
Moehringer writes with a survivor's wisdom . . . The Tender Bar is a memoir, but has the texture of a novel.
'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.'
A straight-up account of masculinity, maturity and memory that leaves a smile on the face and an ache in the heart.
In his gimlet-eyed memoir, The Tender Bar, J.R. Moehringer lovingly and affectingly toasts a boyhood spent on a barstool.
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.
The only thing wrong with this terrific debut is that there has to be a closing time.

J.R. Moehringer, 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 bestselling novel Sutton and collaborator on Open by Andre Agassi, Shoedog by Phil Knight, and Spare by Prince Harry.