When Don Carpenter died in 1995, he left behind such works as Hard falling rain or A Couple of Comedians, considered by Norman Mailer as the best novel ever written about Hollywood. Unexpectedly, almost ten years after his death, the manuscript of Fridays at Enrico's appeared in his archives, a magnificent novel that spans approximately twenty years in the lives of four writers in San Francisco and Portland in the fifties Sixty, in full effervescencia of the delirium of the beat poets. Carpenter's heirs asked the writer Jonathan Lethem to order and edit the manuscript and, to his satisfaction, Lethem encountered a masterpiece. On Fridays at Enrico's he dissects with sobriety the literary ambitions and aspirations to fame and money of a heterogeneous group of friends. Carpenter presents a wonderful and unforgettable gallery of characters, each stranded in his particular quagmire of traumas and hopes: Dick Dubonet and Charlie Monel, determined to realize the potential they show from a very young age; Jaime Froward and Stan Winger, who make their way more slowly, but also more determined, as if their tenacity had to forge and conquer a destiny that seemed never to end up hers; And Linda, the electric presence that galvanizes the rest, muse of the beat and femme fatale in which the desire and frustrations of the protagonists converge. The slab of being an eternal promise, the temptation to sell yourself to Hollywood, professional jealousy, flashing and passing successes, drugs, alcohol, sex, the endless background race that involves writing and the emotional and vital This entails: Carpenter builds with absolute mastery and narrative pulse some bittersweet stories that resonate deeply in the admired silence that follows the reading of this novel.