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2007
BOOMSDAY
Christopher Buckley
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BOOMSDAY

by Christopher Buckley

Twelve · 2012

Peak rank

#15

Weeks on list

1

Debuted

April 2007

Chart History

#1510152007

1 week on the Hardcover Fiction list, peaking at #15

Outraged over the mounting Social Security debt, Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29-year-old blogger and member of Generation Whatever, incites massive cultural warfare when she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75. Her modest proposal catches fire with millions of citizens, chief among them "an ambitious senator seeking the presidency." With the help of Washington's greatest spin doctor, the blogger and the politician try to ride the issue of euthanasia for Boomers (called "transitioning") all the way to the White House,over the objections of the Religious Right, and of course, the Baby Boomers, who are deeply offended by demonstrations on the golf courses of their retirement resorts.

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ISBN-13
9781780336756
ISBN-10
1780336756
Published
2012
Pages
241
Publisher
Twelve
Categories
Fiction

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