The Tender Bar: A Memoir
by J. R. Moehringer
Thirsty for Life
A review by Chris Jones
When I was just starting out, I had the misfortune of reading a magazine article
by Moehringer called "Resurrecting the Champ." It was a boxing story,
but it was also a story about fathers, and, more than that, it was the most perfect
story I could ever imagine. It made me want to quit writing. Now, with The
Tender Bar, his memoir of a heartbreaking, ultimately triumphant life steeped
in the rhythms of a Long Island bar, Moehringer has done what I thought was impossible:
He has taken another story essentially about fathers (his is mostly absent) and
made it better than his first. In content and style, the man has found a new perfect,
leaving the rest of us with only so much farther to go.
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