Christopher Buckley: 2-Book Bundle
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Boomsday
Outraged over the mounting Social Security debt, Cassandra Devine, a young charismatic 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 seventy-five. Her modest proposal catches fire with millions of citizens
"Wickedly funny . . . a highly readable novel with flip-page howlers." — St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Supreme Courtship
The President of the United State, ticked off at the Senate for rejecting his nominees, decides to get even by nominating America's most popular TV judge to the supreme court.
Praise for Christopher Buckley
"One of the funniest writers in the English language." —Tom Wolfe
"An accomplished comic novelist and raucously funny political satirist." — Sunday Times of London
"One of the rarest political specimens— the authentically comic writer." — Boston Globe
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About the author
He is the author of fifteen books, which have translated into sixteen languages. They include: Steaming To Bamboola, The White House Mess, Wet Work, God Is My Broker, Little Green Men, No Way To Treat a First Lady, Florence of Arabia, Boomsday, Supreme Courtship, Losing Mum And Pup: A Memoir and Thank You For Smoking, which was made into a movie in 2005. Most have been named New York Times Notable Books of the Year.
He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Time, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, National Geographic, New York Magazine, the Washington Monthly, Forbes, Esquire, Vogue, Daily Beast, and other publications.
He received the Washington Irving Prize for Literary Excellence and the Thurber Prize for American Humor. He lives in Connecticut.
