The tender bar
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Cambridge Public Library - Nonfiction
070.92 M
1 available
070.92 M
1 available
Milaca Community Library - Nonfiction
070.92 M
1 available
070.92 M
1 available
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Cambridge Public Library - Nonfiction | 070.92 M | Available |
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420 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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"With a new afterword"--Cover.
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"Now an original movie on prime video"--Cover.
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Previously published: New York : Hyperion, ©2005.
Description
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 word. Sitting on the stoop, pressing an ear to the radio, J.R. would strain to hear in that plummy baritone the secrets of masculinity and identity. Though J.R.'s mother was his world, his rock, he craved something more, something faintly and hauntingly audible only in The Voice. At eight years old, suddenly unable to find The Voice on the radio, J.R. turned in desperation to the bar on the corner, where he found a rousing chorus of new voices. The alphas along the bar--including J.R.'s Uncle Charlie, a Humphrey Bogart look-alike; Colt, a Yogi Bear sound-alike; and Joey D, a softhearted brawler--took J.R. to the beach, to ballgames, and ultimately into their circle. They taught J.R., tended him, and provided a kind of fathering-by-committee. Torn between the stirring example of his mother and the lurid romance of the bar, J.R. tried to forge a self somewhere in the center. But when it was time for J.R. to leave home, the bar became an increasingly seductive sanctuary, a place to return and regroup during his picaresque journeys. Time and again the bar offered shelter from failure, rejection, heartbreak--and eventually from reality.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Moehringer, J. R. (2021). The tender bar (Hachette Books trade paperback edition.). Hachette Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Moehringer, J. R., 1964-. 2021. The Tender Bar. Hachette Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Moehringer, J. R., 1964-. The Tender Bar Hachette Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, 2021.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Moehringer, J. R. The Tender Bar Hachette Books trade paperback edition., Hachette Books, an imprint of Perseus Books, LLC, 2021.
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