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The Tender Bar

A Memoir

The Tender Bar( )
Author: Moehringer, J. R.
ISBN:978-0-7868-8876-4
Publication Date:Aug 2006
Publisher:Hachette Books
Imprint:Hachette Books
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $18.99
Book Description:

Now a major Amazon film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar, in the tradition of This Boy's Life and The Liar's Club 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...
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Book Details
Pages:432
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General
Biography & Autobiography / Editors, Journalists, Publishers
Travel / Food, Lodging & Transportation / Restaurants
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.25 x 8 x 1 Inches
Book Weight:0.8 Pounds
Author Biography
Moehringer, J. R. (Author)
J. R. Moehringer is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and novelist. He is the author of The Tender Bar (2005) and Sutton (2012). He collaborated on Andre Aggassi's memoir Open (2012).

Moehringer graduated from Yale University in 1986. He began his journalism career as a news assistant at The New York Times later moving to Breckenridge, Colorado to work at the Rocky Mountain News and even later he became a reporter for the Orange County bureau of the Los Angeles Times. Moehringer eventually was sent to Atlanta to serve as the LA Times national correspondent on the south.

Moehringer received the Literary Award, PEN Center USA West and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists, both in 1997 and a Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 2000.

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