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Rent Boomsday
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Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Twelve
Published: May 2008
Genre: Fiction - Political
Retail Price: $17.99
Pages: 336
Synopsis
BOOMSDAY'S heroine is Cassandra Devine, a charismatic 29-year-old blogger who incites massive political turmoil when, outraged over mounting Social Security debt, she politely suggests that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age 75. Her modest proposal catches fire with millions of her outraged peers ('Generation Whatever') and an ambitious Senator seeking to gain the youth vote in his presidential campaign.
With the help of Washington's greatest spin doctor, the blogger and the politician try to ride the issue of euthanasia for Boomers (they call it 'Transitioning') all the way to the White House, over the forceful objections of the Religious Right and, of course, Baby Boomers, who are deeply offended by demonstrations on the golf courses of their retirement resorts.
Reviews
How could the 14 subscribers who've rated this audiobook give it an average of only 3 stars? Every written review on this page gives it 5 stars. Very odd 'system' you have, Booksfree. Garofalo reads this perfectly. She captures Buckley's dry wit with just the right deadpan delivery and manages to make this wonderfully over-the-top plot line just plausible enough to be both hilarious and a little unsettling due to the truth behind the humor. No one from Harvard could have written something this good.