0-446-57981-5/978-0-446-57981-0
$24.99 (In Canada: $31.99)
304 pages; 6 x 9
Fiction
Rights: North America and Open Market

One of America’s most hilarious novelists and the bestselling author of Thank You For Smoking returns with a biting comedy about generational warfare.

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.

Buckley’s novel, Thank You for Smoking (Random House, 1994), was a national bestseller, winning rave reviews in USA TODAY and the Los Angeles Times, and selling over 200,000 copies. It was made into a critically acclaimed film starring Aaron Eckhart, Robert Duvall, and Katie Holmes. A new audience has discovered Buckley’s work and will seek out BOOMSDAY.

Buckley is the author of 11 books, many of them national bestsellers, including The White House Mess (Knopf, 1986), God is My Broker (Random House, 1998), No Way to Treat a First Lady (Random House, 2002), and Little Green Men (Random House, 1999), which will become a feature film directed by Whit Stillman. Buckley is a well-known American satirist, editor of ForbesLife, former managing editor of Esquire, and the winner of The Thurber Prize for American Humor.

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