The Boozer Challenge is a fiction book by author Charles Gill, son of famed New Yorker

The New Yorker

The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...

 writer Brendan Gill

Brendan Gill

Brendan Gill wrote for The New Yorker for more than 60 years. He also contributed film criticism for Film Comment and wrote a popular book about his time at the New Yorker magazine.-Biography:...

, and brother of Michael Gates Gill, who wrote How Starbucks Saved My Life

How Starbucks Saved My Life

How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else is a memoir by Michael Gates Gill which chronicles his journey from a high-level advertising executive with J. Walter Thompson to a barista at Starbucks. The book has been optioned by Tom Hanks for a film; filmmaker...

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The Boozer Challenge was published on April 1, 1989, by Penguin

Penguin Group

The Penguin Group is a trade book publisher, the largest in the world , having overtaken Random House in 2009. The Penguin Group is the name of the incorporated division of parent Pearson PLC that oversees these publishing operations...

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The story is about four spoiled twenty-something children who are challenged by their billionaire father to earn $100,000 in one year in order to inherit his beautiful Hudson river estate.