توضیحات
J.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. Read more…
Abstract: J.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
جی آر موهرینگر با گوش دادن به یک صدا بزرگ شد: صدای پدر گم شده اش، یک دیسک جوکی که قبل از اینکه جی آر اولین کلماتش را بگوید ناپدید شد. به عنوان یک پسر، او گوش خود را به یک رادیو فشار می داد تا کلید هویت خود را بشنود. مادرش دنیای او بود، لنگر او، اما او به چیز دیگری نیاز داشت، چیزی که نمی توانست نامش را بگذارد. بنابراین به نوار گوشهای چرخید، یک سالن بزرگ و قدیمی در نیویورک که پناهگاهی بود برای همه نوع مرد – پلیس و شاعر، بازیگر و وکلا. ، قماربازان و تلو تلوخوران. شخصیت های پر زرق و برق به JR آموزش می دادند، از او مراقبت می کردند و نوعی پدر شدن توسط کمیته را فراهم می کردند. وقتی زمان خروج او از خانه فرا رسید، بار به ایستگاهی تبدیل شد که از شکست، طرد شدن و در نهایت از واقعیت پناه میگرفت – تا اینکه سرانجام بار، جی آر را دور کرد. پرتره ای از تلاش یک پسر برای تبدیل شدن به یک مرد، و تصویری تکان دهنده از اینکه چگونه برخی از مردان پسران گمشده باقی می مانند.– از توضیحات ناشر. بیشتر بخوانید…
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