JR Moehringer writes his own life story exciting and humorous like a good novel, thereby reversing its inside out. Presumably, he was asked more than once: Do you really want that thousands of people read it? And presumably he has replied: That reads but eh no. So you can be wrong! JR Moehringer is restrained, modest way to shyness. Between the lines we read how little he thinks of himself: My life is boring, my writing style as well, and I'm a failure at failures. Granted, people create around it (almost) all the jump not, the entire relationship lives with his grandparents, occasionally pulling in its own little apartment and returns sooner or later inevitably. As salmon trying to jump up a waterfall that comes a little higher than the others, but sooner or later everyone falls down again. One would grab him by the shoulders and yell at him: Your life is exciting, your writing style full of subtle humor and tragedy, and you're a great writer! At least he had the guts to apply for a college, each of the said do not take you anyway! And if they take you, then you come before you as the last failure, between all the guys from a good family, and sooner or later you throw down! So you can be wrong ... He has bitten through after a serious start in life, and the reader experiences all this with. As he waits for his father, the reader knows that he is waiting in vain while the small JR still sits full of excitement on the street corner. Please not: When his mother have cancer, you think as a reader! If this book were a novel, then would no author let the mother die, because it would be simply applied too thick: The father unreliable and violent, the Grandfather a patriarch, under which all suffer, most own wife, and then dies nor the mother, who is his only lifeline! But this is not a novel, and JR Moehringer leaves the reader sympathize and mentioned in advance with no word if the mother survives the disease or not. I will not do that. I felt especially at the beginning again and again to the Waltons recalls, a family series that plays my knowledge sometime in the first half of the 20th century. Only there was no friendly Goodnight, John-Boy, good night, Elizabeth, but at best a more or less friendly hum. A family history without harmony and love, because life wrote this story. I had to make it clear again and again that JR Moehringer is only four years older than me, so simple and plain life was in a small American town in the '70s. The Tender Bar is a uramerikanisches book about a small American town boy, and you get a glimpse of the real America, far from television shows and movies. And because the place name Manhasset no accident is similar to Manhattan, you get a whole new view on the September 11 attacks. Behind the scenes, so to speak, because many people who JR Moehringer knew, lost their lives or have lost someone, and so these events flow at the end with a. The bar is in the book is actually a metaphor for the young JR Moehringer it is the big world, while they, the last stop is for those whom he meets there. A pile Looser, but enable it, move in the right direction on a very big way. Thank You Guys. Thank you for this book.
