Tender Bar Hardcover

I read "Open" and thought it had been written by Andre Agassi until the acknowledgements at the end of the book. When the ghost writer was accredited to J.R. Moehringer and the reason why Andre had asked this writer to help with his book was on the basis of reading J.R.'s autobiography. This was the reason I bought "The Tender Bar". I enjoyed it and for the first few chapters it was both poignant and funny. When he went to Yale, I worried about him. I was disappointed that there was a gap of ten years at the end of the book when I didn't know what had happened to him. His response to 9/11 was heart rending but realistic. A terrific read.

Do yourself a favour. Do not die without reading this book.

Sadly when my book was delivered it was in German! It doesn’t mention this in the description so beware.

Really enjoyed this book,great characters and a story that evoked an era and childhood,have recommended and bought this book for many of my friends. Loved it

An author I have been working with recommended 'The Tender Bar' and I bought a secondhand copy from World of Books – what a gift! Excellent writing and an achingly good story, I laughed and cried with the author, was charmed by the surrogate fathers he adopted in the Dickens bar. His search to fill the hole left by his absent and utterly unsupportive father, aka The Voice, is packed with humour, empathy, tragedy, damaged people, heartwarming people, his dysfunctional extended family. And the constancy of his mother’s striving to ensure a better life.I read this at every opportunity to share his journey, disappointments, achievements, growth.I hope there will be another volume about this man’s life. I want to know whether he heeded his grandmother’s injunction that good men look after their mothers, whether she made it to varsity. I want to know whether Sydney’s treachery affected future relationships and whether he learned to commit to being happy.It’s no wonder Moehringer won the Pulitzer Prize or that Agassi contracted him to ghostwrite 'Open'. I do have mixed feelings about him collaborating on the forthcoming royal autobiography! I’m sure the writing will be a joy but …