The Tender Bar : A Memoir (CD-Audio)

from jmyers24

I can't remember the last time a book made me laugh out loud so often and I am only about one-third of the way through. The people are so vivid and real, the suburban East-Coast setting so well drawn, that many readers will feel unexpectedly at home in Manhasset, Long Island, even if they have ne...

from datrappert

This episodic memoir of a boy becoming a man in the 70s and 80s, centered on his hometown bar and its characters, is deeply confessional and almost always engaging. It has humor, it has heartbreak--probably more of the latter--and it has a tremendous amount of truth in it as the young writer stru...

from laytonwoman3rd

A memoir of a young man whose mother struggled to raise him alone after leaving his abusive father. In place of the man he never really knew, JR (it doesn't STAND FOR ANYTHING!) latched on to his Uncle Charlie and a motley assortment of bartenders and patrons at "The Bar", the neighborhood wateri...

from CstSnow

You know those handful of books in a lifetime that truly have an impact?Not the ones with decent enough stories that keep you coming back just to find out what happens, but the ones that you start over again as soon as your done and give out as presents to everybody you know, well this book was d...

from tloeffler

A very well-written memoir about a young man who finds his male role models where he can get them (in a local bar). The characters are vivid, the stories are hilarious and sad at the same time, and towards the end, I had trouble putting it down.