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Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: A Memoir
Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time A Memoir Author:David Goodwillie A talented young writer gives voice to a generation in this exhilarating memoir that chronicles the detours, dead ends, and dubious decisions made while searching for what really matters. — After a disastrous stint playing professional baseball, David Goodwillie moves to New York City with vague notions of literary stardom. But what happens next ... more »is anything but triumphant. Goodwillie quickly falls into one implausible job after another—a private investigator; a magazine journalist trailing the Mafia; and, somehow, the youngest sports memorabilia expert in the history of Sotheby’s, where he presides over the largest sports auction ever held— until finally succumbing to the promise of Internet riches . . . just a few months too late.
Through his occasionally heartbreaking, often hilarious, and ultimately uplifting struggle to become a big city writer, Goodwillie has become something more: an important voice of the lost generation he so eloquently depicts.« less