Don Carpenter. (2014). Fridays at Enrico's: A Novel. Catapult.

Don Carpenter. 2014. Fridays At Enrico's: A Novel. Catapult.

Don Carpenter, Fridays At Enrico's: A Novel. Catapult, 2014.

Don Carpenter. Fridays At Enrico's: A Novel. Catapult, 2014.

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   • bioText: Don Carpenter was born in Berkeley in 1932. Raised in Portland, he enlisted in the air force and returned to the bay area at the end of his service. He published ten novels during his lifetime, and he had a successful career as a screenwriter, living for long periods in Hollywood. After years of poor health, he committed suicide in Mill Valley in 1995.
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Don Carpenter was one of the finest novelists working in the west. His first novel, A Hard Rain Falling, first published in 1966, has been championed by Richard Price, and George Pelacanos who called it "a masterpiece…the definitive juvenile–delinquency novel and a damning indictment of our criminal justice system," is considered a classic. His novel A Couple of Comedians is thought by some the best novel about Hollywood ever written.
He was a close friend of Evan Connell and other San Francisco writers, but his closest friendship was with Richard Brautigan, and when Brautigan killed himself, Carpenter tried for some time to write a biography of his remarkable, deeply troubled friend.
He finally abandoned that in favor of writing a novel. Friday's at Enricos, the story of four writers living in Northern California and Portland during the early, heady days of the Beat scene. A time of youth and opportunity, this story mixes the excitement of beginning with the melancholy of ambition, often thwarted and never satisfied. Loss of innocence is only the first price you pay. These are people, men and women, tender with expectation, at risk and in love, and Carpenter also carefully draws a portrait of these two remarkable places, San Francisco and Portland, in the 50s and early 60s, when the writers and bohemians were busy creating the groundwork for what came to be the counterculture.
A great champion of Don Carpenter, Jonathan Lethem, has taken on the task of editing and developing this last draft into the shape we imagine Carpenter would have himself accomplished had he lived to see this through. And Lethem provides a wonderful introduction to this book, to Carpenter, and to the broad influence of his work which resonates until this very day.

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   • source: Library Journal
   • content: "Not just a nostalgia trip into the counterculture, this work vividly recalls a time and place in forthright, engaging language."
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   • source: Curt Gentry, author of J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets, Helter Skelter
   • content: "I don't suppose I'll ever get over my friend Don Carpenter's tragic death, but it helps more than a little that as his legacy he left us his best book: Fridays at Enrico's."
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   • source: Matthew Specktor, author of American Dream Machine, and The Sting.
   • content: "Fridays At Enrico's may be the truest depiction of literary life I've ever encountered. Truer than Lost Illusions, truer than New Grub Street; Carpenter depicts the lives of his bohemians up and down the west coast with a kind of calm radiance, and with an equipoise between hope and despair. The result is a kind of stoic classic, like John Williams' Stoner. I can't recommend it highly enough."
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   • source: Christopher Sorrentino, author of Trance, Believeniks!, and American Tempura
   • content: "The writer's life is a favorite subject for many authors, but Fridays at Enrico's is Don Carpenter from front to back--spare but unsparing, plain–spoken but filigreed with moments of bright poetry, and focused on ordinary people climbing out of the holes they're in only to dig deeper ones for themselves. Edited by Jonathan Lethem with a light and sympathetic touch, Carpenter's final novel is an unexpected treat."
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     Starred review from February 15, 2014
     Do we need another work about the struggles of writers? Sure, we do--if it has the warmth and charm and sexy vibe of Carpenter's (From a Distant Place, 1988, etc.) novel. This recently discovered, not-quite-final draft has been lovingly shaped for publication by author Jonathan Lethem. Carpenter (1932-1995), author of 10 novels, was a veteran of the West Coast literary scene. He offers us four young writers--four separate struggles. Take Jaime Froward, a 19-year-old native of San Francisco. In 1959, she's studying at the state university, where she meets Charlie Monel, 10 years her senior. Charlie is a Korean War vet and former POW working on a big war novel. At Jaime's urging, they jump into bed. After she gets pregnant, bighearted Charlie insists they marry. Perfect timing, since Jaime's father has just died in his mistress's bed, and her mother, drunk and disoriented, is selling their home. Meanwhile, up in Portland, Ore., young Dick Dubonet is the toast of the town. He has sold a story to Playboy and scores again when he hooks up with Linda McNeill, a voluptuous free spirit who has hung out with the Beats. Charlie, along with Jaime and their baby daughter, moves to Portland to teach at a community college (his novel is proving intractable). One of his students is Stan Winger, a jewel thief. Stan writes really good drugstore pulps and will soon start selling them. As for Jaime, she throws herself into a novel based on her family. It devastates Charlie; his wife is the far better writer. However, as Carpenter makes clear, Stan and Jaime are equals in the republic of letters, though working in very different genres. Doing time at San Quentin, Stan shows heroic discipline, memorizing whole chapters of his new project. Both Stan and Charlie gravitate to Hollywood, which Carpenter treats with surprising generosity as he takes his story up to 1975, when the future still beckons invitingly. This publication is an important event: Welcome back, Don Carpenter.

     COPYRIGHT(2014) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     June 1, 2014
     

     Novelist/screenwriter Carpenter committed suicide in 1995, but the complete manuscript of this work was recently discovered and has been edited by MacArthur Fellow Lethem. Carpenter intended to write a biography of his friend, novelist Richard Brautigan, but felt more comfortable using Brautigan as a model for fiction. VERDICT Not just a nostalgia trip into the counterculture, this work vividly recalls a time and place in forthright, engaging language.

     Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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He was a close friend of Evan Connell and other San Francisco writers, but his closest friendship was with Richard Brautigan, and when Brautigan killed himself, Carpenter tried for some time to write a biography of his remarkable, deeply troubled friend.
He finally abandoned that in favor of writing a novel. Friday's at Enricos, the story of four writers living in Northern California and Portland during the early, heady days of the Beat scene. A time of youth and opportunity, this story mixes the excitement of...

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