A Pulitzer Prize-winning AuthorA New York Times BestsellerJ. R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It belonged to his father, A New York City disc jockey who vanished before J.R. spoke his first word. 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 new chorus of voices. Cops and poets, bookies and soldiers, movie stars and stumblebums, all taught J.R., tended him, and provided a kind of fatherhood-by-committee.
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The Tender Bar: A Memoir
von J. R. Moehringer
A Pulitzer Prize-winning AuthorA New York Times BestsellerJ. R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It belonged to his father, A New York City disc jockey who vanished before J.R. spoke his first word. 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 new chorus of voices. Cops and poets, bookies and soldiers, movie stars and stumblebums, all taught J.R., tended him, and provided a kind of fatherhood-by-committee.
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Rezension von CarlaI genuinely enjoyed this memoir that felt almost like a novel. Splendid writing! Another element that I enjoyed was that the memoir didn’t start with the big question “who am I?” It is written in a very vulnerable way, narrating how one grows up without the father and explores the idea of community, the faces of humans surrounding him in each life’s chapter. One quote I liked: “All love is based on knowledge, the desire to know, the thrill of being known, and the greatest love of all, parental love, is hardly exempt from this rule.”