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Published by New York: Hyperion, 2005, 2005
Seller: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, U.S.A.
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near fine dust-jacket, cover price $23.95, attractive copy, very good brown 1/2 hardcover with lighter brown boards which have odd green flakes embedded as part of the design it seems. MOEHRINGER, J. R. The tender bar: a memoir. New York: Hyperion, 2005, stated First Edition, and 1st printing number line ending in 1, 370pp., . J.R. Moehringer grew up listening for a voice: the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before J.R. spoke his first words. As a boy, he would press his ear to a radio, straining to hear the keys to his own identity. His mother was his world, his anchor, but he needed something else, something he couldn't name. So he turned to the bar on the corner, a grand old New York saloon that was a sanctuary for all types of men--cops and poets, actors and lawyers, gamblers and stumblebums. The flamboyant characters taught J.R., tended him, and provided a kind of fatherhood by committee. When the time came for him to leave home, the bar became a way station, offering shelter from failure, from rejection, and eventually from reality--until at last the bar turned J.R. away. A portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, and a touching depiction of how some men remain lost boys. 9781401300647 ISBN 1401300642.
Published by DUOMO EDICIONES, 2019
ISBN 10: 8416261393ISBN 13: 9788416261390
Seller: OM Books, Sevilla, SE, Spain
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Condition: usado- bueno.