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Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
by David Goodwillie? Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time : Read More ?
- Publisher: Algonquin Books
- Genres: memoir
- Language: english
- Format: hardcover, 356 pages
- Release date: June 2, 2006
- ISBN: 9781565124653 (1565124650)
- Author: David Goodwillie
About The Book
Fresh out of college and following a brief and disastrous stint playing minor league baseball, David Goodwillie moves to New York intent on making his mark as a writer.
Arriving in Manhattan in the mid-nineties, Goodwillie quickly falls into one implausible job after another. He becomes a private investigator, imagining himself as a gumshoe, a hired gun — only to realize that he’s more adept at bungling cases than at solving them. When, in his stint as a freelance journalist, he unveils the Mafia in a magazine exposé, he succeeds only in becoming a target of their wrath. As a copywriter for a sports auction house, he imagines documenting the great histories hidden in priceless artifacts but finds himself forced to write about a lock of Mickey Mantle’s hair. Even when he seems to break through, somehow becoming the sports expert at Sotheby’s auction house — appearing on major news networks, raking in a hefty salary — he’s lured away by the promise of Internet millions…just in time for the dot-com crash.
Teeming with the vibrancy of a city in hyperdrive, Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time recounts a dizzying and enthralling search for authenticity in a cynical, superficial — and suddenly dangerous — age.
In his heartbreaking and hilarious struggle to become a big-city writer, Goodwillie becomes something more: an important voice of the lost generation he so elegantly describes.
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