{"product_id":"the-tender-bar","title":"The Tender Bar","description":"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.\r\n\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.\r\n\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 New York Times, 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.\u003cspan class=\"booksy-isbn-search\" style=\"position:absolute;left:-9999px;width:1px;height:1px;overflow:hidden;\" aria-hidden=\"true\"\u003eISBN: 9781529394429\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"Moehringer, J.r.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56568706105730,"sku":"9781529394429","price":100.99,"currency_code":"RON","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0933\/1500\/6850\/files\/ID22-331088.jpg?v=1776363126","url":"https:\/\/www.booksy.ro\/products\/the-tender-bar","provider":"Booksy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}