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The Tender Bar

A Memoir

The Tender Bar( )
Author: Moehringer, J. R.
Narrated by: Grupper, Adam
ISBN:978-1-4498-9425-2
Publication Date:Nov 2005
Publisher:Recorded Books, Inc.
Book Format:Downloadable audio file
List Price:USD $109.00
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Pulitzer Prize winner J.R. Moehringer offers a vivid and moving memoir of his years in Long Island, New York. At once a celebration and lament of a life, this is the story of one boy's fascination with voice-and his romance with a place, his local bar. Moehringer's compelling narrative leads listeners through moments of great joy and immense heartache. "The Tender Bar will make you thirsty for that life-its camaraderie, its hilarity, its seductive, dangerous wisdom."-Richard Russo,...
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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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