2010, ISBN: 9781565124653

Hardcover

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [10], 356, [2] pages. Inscribed by the author on the… More...

Chapel Hill: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. [10], 356, [2] pages. Inscribed by the author on the title page. David Goodwillie is the author of the memoir SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA AT THE TIME, for which he was named one of the "Best New Writers of 2006 by members of the PEN American Center. Goodwillie writes about books for the The New York Times and The Daily Beast, and his fiction and nonfiction have appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers, including New York, Newsweek, Popular Science, Men's Health, Black Book, The New York Observer, and The New York Post. He has played professional baseball, worked as a private investigator, and been an expert at Sotheby's auction house. He is a graduate of Kenyon College. He is also the author of the acclaimed novel AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE. Hailed as "genuinely thrilling" by The New Yorker, and "a triumphant work of fiction" by the AP, it was a New York Times Notable Book of 2010, and a Vanity Fair and Publisher's Weekly top ten Spring debut. Goodwillie wrote eloquently about a lock of Mickey Mantle's hair while at Sotheby's! Derived from a Kirkus review: Goodwillie's fresh and invigorating debut opens at Kenyon College, where he winds up as the star of the school's baseball team. Come graduation time, he's being scouted by the majors. When that doesn't work out, it's off to the Big Apple. He finds a job as a private investigator researching Mafia shakedowns in Chinatown; an on-again, off-again coke habit and a Cuban roommate named Gus who works as a press agent for Mayor Rudy Giuliani but somehow knows more about the literary world than Goodwillie does. The author moves to writing catalogue copy for a sports-memorabilia auction house to working as a sports researcher at Sotheby's. Goodwillie tries to hang on to his literary dreams, publishing an investigative piece here, a short story there. When the collapse finally comes, he relies on a congenial tone of self-mockery and smart, finely tuned storytelling., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006, 3<

2006, ISBN: 9781565124653

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling, with… More...

Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006. First edition. Stated. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. DJ has slight wear and soiling, with small edge wear and sticker residue.. 356 p. 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 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., Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2006, 3<

2006, ISBN: 1565124650

Hardcover

[EAN: 9781565124653], Used, good, [PU: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill], Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missin… More...

[EAN: 9781565124653], Used, good, [PU: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill], Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages., Books<