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The Tender Bar: Now a Major Film Directed by George Clooney and Starring Ben Affleck
J R Moehringer
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Description for The Tender Bar: Now a Major Film Directed by George Clooney and Starring Ben Affleck
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 384 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; BM; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 26. Weight in Grams: 312.
NOW A MAJOR FILM DIRECTED BY GEORGE CLOONEY AND STARRING BEN AFFLECK
'Highly entertaining'
New York Times
'Moehringer writes with a survivor's wisdom'
Sunday Telegraph
In the rich tradition of bestselling memoirs about self-invention, The Tender Bar 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.
JR 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Weight
312g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340828830
SKU
V9780340828830
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99-50
About J R Moehringer
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 memoir The Tender Bar and the bestselling novel Sutton, and co-author of Open by Andre Agassi, Shoedog by Phil Knight and Spare by Prince ... Read more
Reviews for The Tender Bar: Now a Major Film Directed by George Clooney and Starring Ben Affleck
Simply a wonderful book about a heaven of a life that had everything going against it except intense love
James Salter, author of All That Is Moehringer has crafted a yearning, lyrical account of his fatherless youth and the companionship he found . . . among the Dickensian characters at a neighborhood bar
Los Angeles Times Book Review ... Read more
James Salter, author of All That Is Moehringer has crafted a yearning, lyrical account of his fatherless youth and the companionship he found . . . among the Dickensian characters at a neighborhood bar
Los Angeles Times Book Review ... Read more