Fridays at Enrico's
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" 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. Recently discovered in a complete penultimate manuscript, having been lost since the author's death, we were thrilled to see this book into print. 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. "-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
Berkeley : Counterpoint, 2014.
Year Published: 2014
Description: 325 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781619023017
1619023016
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Lethem, Jonathan.
SUBJECTS
Beat generation -- Fiction.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Fiction.
San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Portland (Ore.) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.