FRIDAYS AT ENRICO’ S: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 04940014B69756
English Summary/英文概要： Don Carpenter was one of the finest novelists in the West. His first novel, A Hard Rain Falling, published in 1966, has been championed by Richard Price, and George Pelecanos called it “a masterpiece . . . the definitive juvenile-delinquency novel and a damning indictment of our criminal justice system.” His novel A Couple of Comedians is thought by some the best novel about Hollywood ever written.
Fridays at Enrico’s is 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. Carpenter also carefully draws a portrait of these two remarkable places, San Francisco and Portland, in the ’50s and early ’60s, when writers and bohemians were busy creating the groundwork for what came to be the counterculture.
The complete penultimate manuscript forgotten since the author’s death, was recently discovered, and we’re thrilled to see this book into print.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 唐•卡朋特是西方最优秀的小说家之一。他的第一部小说《暴雨》出版于1966年，一直被理查德•普莱斯所推崇，乔治•派勒卡洛斯称之为“一部杰作 . . .明确的少年犯罪小说，相当严厉的指责了刑事司法制度。”他的小说《一对喜剧演员夫妇 》被认为是好莱坞有史以来写得最好的小说之一。
《恩里科的星期五》讲述了四个作家早期居住在北加州和波特兰激动人心的日子，一个青年和机遇的时代。这个故事混合着开始的兴奋和野心的惆怅，经常受挫，永不满足。纯真的丧失是只有你付出的第一个代价。
这是男人和女人的温柔与期望，风险和爱。卡朋特还精心绘制了旧金山和波特兰在50年代和60年代初的肖像，那个时候作家和波西米亚正忙着创造后来被成为反主流文化的基础。
作者去世后，已完成的第二稿就被遗忘了，最近刚发现，我们很高兴看到这本书出版。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：“《恩里科的星期五》可能是我所遇到的最真实的文学生活的写照。比《丢掉幻想》和《新格拉布街》更真实；卡朋特以一种平静的光芒以及绝望和希望之间的平衡描绘了他的波希米亚人围绕西海岸的生活。结果诞生了像约翰•威廉姆斯的《斯托纳》那样的禁欲主义的经典之作。强烈推荐。”——马修，《美国机器梦》和《刺痛》的作者
“作家的生活是很多作家中意的题材，但是《恩里科的星期五》是唐•卡朋特从头到尾——宽恕却毫不留情，直言不讳却充满明亮诗歌的时刻，关注于普通人爬出那些他们为自己深入挖掘的洞。乔纳森•里瑟带着同情和轻柔的编辑，卡朋特的最后一部小说是一个意外的享受。”——克里斯托弗•索伦蒂诺，《恍惚间》、《美国天妇罗》和《Believeniks》的作者
"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."—Matthew Specktor, author of American Dream Machine, and The Sting.
"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."—Christopher Sorrentino, author of Trance, Believeniks!, and American Tempura
“If Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest prefigured the Age of Aquarius, then Don Carpenter’s semi-autobiographical Fridays at Enrico’s can be read as the swan song of the entire Love Generation.”
“Carpenter hits the bull’s-eye. Not since F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Crack-Up has a posthumous work acted as the death knell for a generation with such assuredness.”
About the Author/作者介绍： 卡朋特生前发表了十部小说，作为一个编剧他有一个成功的职业生涯，在好莱坞生活了很长时间。多年来健康状况不佳的他于1995年在米尔谷自杀。
Carpenter 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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