LITTLE GREEN MEN - Softcover

Buckley, Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074900505X ISBN 13: 9780749005054

Publisher: ALLISON & BUSBY, 2001

Synopsis

Washington TV host John O. Banion is arguably the most powerful man in Washington. He has it all: wealth, political influence, and the power to mock the president on live television. But his privileged life is thrown into upheaval when he is abducted by aliens.twice. Little does he know it was the work of a top secret government agency which aims to increase extraterrestrial belief through cattle mutilations, abductions and 'probing'. As Banion disregards his credibility and throws all his energy into becoming the impassioned leader of American alien abductees, the government becomes increasingly threatened, and strange events begin to unfold in Buckley's hilarious satirical novel on Washington politics.

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Review

'Christopher Buckley's Little Green Men had me laughing out lout... Chris Buckley is America's top humourist' THE SPECTATOR 'Buckley is both wondefully satiric and blessed with the gift of storytelling. Little Green Men is a page-turner that will appeal to believers and non-believers alike.' FINANCIAL TIMES

From the Publisher

This is the best book of Christopher Buckley's career.
This is the fourth book by Christopher Buckley I've had the privilege of editing. I think it's his best -- his most hilarious and also his truest. How, you might wonder, could a book about a pundit being abducted by aliens be true? Well, I guess you'll have to add this novel to your virtual shopping cart to find out, but let me suggest that the aliens in this book could just as easily be holy men, mystics, gurus, or other repositories of faith. Ultimately, LITTLE GREEN MEN is about what happens when people are compelled to express unfashionable beliefs. While this book was still in galleys, a Silicon Valley multimillionaire whiz kid, 28-year-old Joe Firmage, quit his high-profile executive position at USWeb to pursue his true passion -- spreading word that extraterrestrials are among us. Like the protagonist in Buckley's novel, this polite and respectable fellow believes he has been contacted by aliens. For stating these beliefs, he received a great deal of bemused national attention. (Time magazine's headline of 2/1/99: "From IPOs to UFOs") The truth is out there. That's what we want to believe. Even the current President of the United States, upon assuming office in 1992, sought answers to the unknowable: He asked a trusted adviser to find out two things: 1) Who killed JFK and 2) Are there UFOs? LITTLE GREEN MEN is satire, brilliantly realized. But beneath Buckley's sparkling wit, a deeper theme resonates, one that has stayed with me and continues to beguile and stir me. I hope you are as entertained and provoked by this novel as I am.

About this edition

• Publisher: ALLISON & BUSBY
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 074900505X
• ISBN 13: 9780749005054
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 317