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050	1	4	_aCT275.M5719 _bA3 2005
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100	1		_aMoehringer, J. R., _d1964- _9100692
245	1	4	_aThe tender bar : _ba memoir / _cJ. R. Moehringer.
260			_a[London] : _bSceptre, _c2006, 2005.
300			_a370 p. ; _c21 cm.
500			_aOriginall published in 2005.
520			_aJ.R. Moehringer grew up listening for a voice: the sound of his missing father, a disc jockey who disappeared before J.R. spoke his first words. As a boy, he would press his ear to a radio, straining to hear the keys to his own identity. His mother was his world, his anchor, but he needed something else, something he couldn’t name. So he turned to the bar on the corner, a grand old New York saloon that was a sanctuary for all types of men--cops and poets, actors and lawyers, gamblers and stumblebums. The flamboyant characters taught J.R., tended him, and provided a kind of fatherhood by committee. When the time came for him to leave home, the bar became a way station, offering shelter from failure, from rejection, and eventually from reality--until at last the bar turned J.R. away. A portrait of one boy’s struggle to become a man, and a touching depiction of how some men remain lost boys.--From publisher description.
600	1	0	_aMoehringer, J. R., _d1964- _9100692
650		0	_aJournalists _zUnited States _vBiography. _9159093
650		0	_aBars (Drinking establishments) _xSocial aspects _zManhasset (N.Y.) _9159094
651		0	_aManhasset (N.Y.) _vBiography. _9159095
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651		0	_aConnecticut _vBiography. _9159097
650		0	_aAudiobooks. _9159098
700	1		_aGrupper, Adam. _9159099
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