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Boomsday, a 2007 novel by Christopher Buckley, is a political satire about the rivalry between squandering Baby Boomers and younger generations of Americans who do not want to pay high taxes for their elders' retirement.
- 336 pp (First Edition, Hardback)
- Christopher Buckley
- April 2, 2007
- Twelve
Apr 2, 2007 · Christopher Buckley. 3.71. 9,712 ratings1,087 reviews. 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.
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Mar 19, 2007 · The title of “Boomsday” refers to the point at which this generation becomes eligible for Social Security — and ready to demolish the federal budget. So the book invents a prophetic heroine named...
Boomsday by Christopher Buckley: Summary and reviews. Join BookBrowse today. Reviews of Boomsday by Christopher Buckley. Summary | Excerpt | Reviews | Beyond the book | Read-Alikes | Genres & Themes | Author Bio. Boomsday. A Novel. by Christopher Buckley. Critics' Opinion: Readers' Opinion: First Published: Apr 2007, 336 pages. Paperback:
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Plot Summary. Boomsday (2007), a satirical novel by Christopher Buckley, pivots from Jonathan Swift’s classic eighteenth-century satire A Modest Proposal. Whereas Swift proposed solving the famine in Ireland by having the poor sell their babies to the wealthy as food, Buckley’s characters propose offering older Americans financial ...
Boomsday. PDF Cite. The ldquo;modest proposal” in Christopher Buckley’s comic satire, Boomsday, is a direct descendant of the famous “suggestion” made in a 1729 treatise by Jonathan Swift...
