WORLD PREMIERE! Adapted by GEORGE CLOONEY, STARRING BEN AFFLECK AND TYE SHERIDAN. The memoirs of the Pulitzer laureate are about growing up behind the bar among the bar regulars who replaced the boy's father. Best book of the year according to the New York Times, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, New York Magazine. New York Times bestseller, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today, Library Journal. Since childhood, J.R. Moehringer grew up without a father figure - with an eternally tired mother and a crazy grandfather. The father, a popular radio station DJ who abandoned his family, was present only in the form of a “voice” from the radio, and the boy listened to this “voice”, trying to unravel the secret of masculinity in it. One day, after not hearing his father on the radio, J.R. discovered his uncle's bar, where he found an inspiring chorus of new male voices. Drunk and funny, intelligent and simple-minded, the men replaced the boy's father. As he grew older, the bar became an increasingly seductive place, offering an escape from failure, rejection, heartbreak—and, ultimately, an escape from reality. The place that replaced the father, at the same time, dragged him down, preventing him from becoming a real man... Written in the tradition of the prose of Fitzgerald, Updike and Kerouac, “The Tender Bar” is an intoxicating and sobering story about the struggle of a young man to become a man; a touching reminder that all men are little lost boys at heart. “It’s poignant and hilarious at the same time. "The Tender Bar" begins with a celebration of the saloon, which serves as a refuge for the heroes during the storms of life. And it turns into a complex, detailed story about how a person gets sober and matures at the same time.” – USA Today “The Tender Bar is a charming, heartfelt love letter to an estranged father, a romance between a boy and a street corner bar as smoky and soulful as Sinatra’s voice in 1978.” — The New York Times Book Review “A loving yet honest portrait of a community that can tear you down or build you up. The main advantage of "The Tender Bar" is the superbly rendered voices, stories and fantasies of funny characters who, unlike the author, never left Manhasset - did not even try. – Minneapolis Star Tribune