Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
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Publisher : Algonquin Books
Total Pages : 367
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ISBN-10 : 9781565128286
ISBN-13 : 1565128281
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Book Synopsis Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time by : David Goodwillie

Download or read book Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time written by David Goodwillie and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2006-06-02 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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