The Tender Bar.

MOEHRINGER, J. R.

Item Number: 145119

New York: Hyperion, 2005.

First edition of J. R. Moehringer’s landmark coming-of-age memoir, adapted into the 2021 film of the same name directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck. Octavo, original half cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Slight rubbing to the extremities of the dust jacket and small closed tear to the top corner of the front jacket flap. Jacket design by Michael Yuen. Jacket photograph by Nick Ruechel.

'The Tender Bar' is the story of home, love, and growth that is at all levels classically American. J. R. Moehringer invents himself as the son of a single mother, who seeks his own identity under the warm shelter of a New York bar, where boys grow into men. "Simply a wonderful book about a heaven of a life that had everything going against it except intense love worth more than all the money in the world. Everyone in it is incredibly alive, everyone shines, and every vice is transformed into something glorious. If only whiskey, the heady aroma of which floats from certain pages, gave as much pure happiness as reading this book does" (James Salter).