Thank You for Smoking - Softcover

Buckley, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060976624 ISBN 13: 9780060976620

Publisher: Perennial, 1995

Synopsis

Nick Naylor likes his job. In the neo-puritanical nineties, it's a challenge to defend the rights of smokers and a privilege to promote their liberty. Sure, it hurts a littIe when you're compared to Nazi war criminals, but Nick says he's just doing what it takes to pay the mortgage and put his son through Washington's elite private school St. Euthanasius. He can handle the pressure from the antismoking zealots, but he is less certain about his new boss, BR, who questions whether Nick is worth $150,000 a year to fight a losing war. Under pressure to produce results, Nick goes on a PR offensive. But his heightened notoriety makes him a target for someone who wants to prove just how hazardous smoking can be. If Nick isn't careful, he's going to be stubbed out.

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Review:

A savagely funny satirical farce. . . . produces moments that make you laugh out loud at their inspired absurdity.
The New York Times
Buckley s caricatures of Washington politics, corporate power plays, media spin control, Hollywood pretensions and the human foibles of self-delusion and denial are appallingly right on the money.
San Francisco Chronicle
Seriously funny . . . Forget apple pie. [Buckley s] novel is as American as pork barrels and public relations.
The Atlanta Journal & Constitution
The superior goofball plot, raffish cast and zany sex scenes make this the funniest of Buckley s books.
Time
Hilarious.
The New York Times Book Review"

"A savagely funny satirical farce. . . . produces moments that make you laugh out loud at their inspired absurdity."
-The New York Times

"Buckley's caricatures of Washington politics, corporate power plays, media spin control, Hollywood pretensions and the human foibles of self-delusion and denial are appallingly right on the money."
-San Francisco Chronicle

"Seriously funny . . . Forget apple pie. [Buckley's] novel is as American as pork barrels and public relations."
-The Atlanta Journal & Constitution

"The superior goofball plot, raffish cast and zany sex scenes make this the funniest of Buckley's books."
-Time

"Hilarious."
-The New York Times Book Review

About the Author:

Christopher Buckley is a novelist and editor of Forbes FYI magazine. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and two children and dog, Duck. In 1998, he was inducted into the Légion d'honneur by the president of the Republic of France for "extraordinary contributions to French culture," despite the fact that his French is barely sufficient to order a meal in a restaurant. He has been an adviser to every president since William Howard Taft, a remarkable achievement, since he was born in 1952.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Perennial
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0060976624
• ISBN 13: 9780060976620
• Binding: Paperback