The New York Times-bestselling memoir of a boy striving to become a man -- now a major Amazon film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck.

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Esquire, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, NPR's "Fresh Air," and New York Magazine

A Booksense PickA Borders New Voices FinalistWinner of the Books for a Better Life First Book Award

Raised by a single mother and desperate for a father figure, J. R. Moehringer turned to the bar on the corner when he was eight years old. The regulars -- including J. R.'s uncle -- taught him, tended him, and provided a kind of fathering-by-committee. Torn between the stirring example of his mother and the lurid romance of the bar, J. R. tried to forge a self somewhere in the center. But when it was time for J. R. to leave home, the bar became an increasingly seductive sanctuary, a place to return and regroup during his picaresque journeys. Time and again the bar offered shelter from failure, rejection, heartbreak -- and eventually from reality.

In the grand tradition of landmark memoirs, The Tender Bar is suspenseful, wrenching, and achingly funny. A classic American story of self-invention and escape, of the fierce love between a single mother and an only son, it's also a moving portrait of one boy's struggle to become a man, and an unforgettable depiction of how men remain, at heart, lost boys.

"J. R. Moehringer has found a new perfect." ?Esquire

"Supremely great." ?Graydon Carter

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