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Lädt ... The Tender Bar (Original 2005; 2006. Auflage)von J. R. Moehringer
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Eine Bar ist vielleicht nicht der beste Ort für ein Kind, aber bei weitem nicht der schlechteste. Vor allem das "Dickens" nicht, mit seinen warmherzigen und skurrilen Figuren: Smelly, der Koch, Bob the Copund seine geheimnisvolle Vergangenheit oder Cager, der Vietnam-Veteran. Für den kleinen JR sind sie alle bessere Väter als seiner - wäre er da gewesen. Von ihnen lernt er Mut, Zuversicht und die Gewissheit, dass es nicht nur Gut und Böse gibt, dass Bücher Berge versetzen können und das man an gebrochenem Herzen nicht stirbt. In der Bar hört er zum ersten Mal Sinatra, sieht Baseballspiele im Fernsehen, und trinkt sein erstes Bier. Er lernt auch, dass Träume wahr werden können - wenn man für sie kämpft. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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HTML:Now a major Amazon film directed by George Clooney and starring Ben Affleck, Tye Sheridan, Lily Rabe, and Christopher Lloyd, a raucous, poignant, luminously written memoir about a boy striving to become a man, and his romance with a bar, in the tradition of This Boyâ??s Life and The Liarâ??s Clubâ??with a new Afterword. J.R. Moehringer grew up captivated by a voice. It was the voice of his father, a New York City disc jockey who vanished before J.R. spoke his first word. Sitting on the stoop, pressing an ear to the radio, J.R. would strain to hear in that plummy baritone the secrets of masculinity and identity. Though J.R.'s mother was his world, his rock, he craved something more, something faintly and hauntingly audible only in The Voice. At eight years old, suddenly unable to find The Voice on the radio, J.R. turned in desperation to the bar on the corner, where he found a rousing chorus of new voices. The alphas along the barâ??including J.R.'s Uncle Charlie, a Humphrey Bogart look-alike; Colt, a Yogi Bear sound-alike; and Joey D, a softhearted brawlerâ??took J.R. to the beach, to ballgames, and ultimately into their circle. They taught J.R., 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, heartbreakâ??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. 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 New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Booksense, and Library Journal Bestseller Booksense Pick Borders New Voices Finalist Winner of the Books for a Better Life Fir Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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