Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time : A Life in Hindsight

English

ISBN: 1565124650

EAN: 9781565124653

Category: Literary Criticism / American / General/Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General/Business & Economics / Sales & Selling / General/Political Science / Law Enforcement/Antiques & Collectibles / Sports/Biography & Autobiography / General/Business & Economics / Industries / Computers & Information Technology/

Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

Release Date: 04/30/2006

Synopsis: 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 hes more adept at bungling cases than at solving them. When, in his stint as a freelance journalist, he unveils the Mafia in a magazine exposeacute;, 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 Mantles hair. Even when he seems to break through, somehow becoming the sports expert at Sothebys auction house-appearing on major news networks, raking in a hefty salary-hes 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.

Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time : A Life in Hindsight

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.33 inches

Width: 6.24 inches

Length: 9.26 inches

Weight: 24.06 oz

Pages: 356