[Sunset Gang 02] • Never Too Late for Love

A collection that combines additional stories written after The Sunset Gang was published dealing with the same intrepid crew who inhabit Sunset Village. Anyone who is aging, meaning all of us, will revel in these stories of joy, love, sex, and energy that give a deeper meaning to the aging process, especially in what the young might call “the twilight years.” In these stories, there is no sense of oncoming doom and life goes on in a perpetual sunset. Anyone who has an “older” friend or parent will marvel at this wonderful, inspiring collection and enjoy reading and re-reading these stories for years to come.

### From Publishers Weekly

In these 15 stories (six of which are reprinted from The Sunset Gang), the author of The War of the Roses portrays love and sex in a Florida Jewish retirement community. Unfortunately, they deal in stereotype and cliche, which means the women are yentas and the men long-suffering. In the title story, a man and woman who are married-but not to each other-meet at the Sunset Village Yiddish Club and fall in love, to the horror of both their families. Murray Gold learns that "A Widow Is a Very Dangerous Commodity" when his wife dies and friends as well as strangers begin putting themselves out for him in what Gold (rather dimly) doesn't recognize as attempted seduction. A woman who continues to think of her now-deceased husband as "Poor Herman" because "Their marriage bed had been as cold as ice" reunites with the one man who ever gave her pleasure, her teenage lover, and finds that he still does. In the bizarre "Tell Me That I'm Young," a 23-year-old man inherits his parents' condominium in Sunset Village and moves there with his young wife, who, in a fit of pique, takes to turning the head of an annoying older woman's husband. When a man sees mortality approaching, he tries "Tying Up Loose Ends" by confessing his many infidelities to his wife, who listens dispassionately. Although Adler purports to present a fresh view of the elderly, he serves up the same tired characters, only horny.

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### About the Author

Warren Adler is best known for *The War of the Roses*, his masterpiece fictionalization of a macabre divorce turned into the Golden Globe and BAFTA nominated dark comedy hit starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, and Danny DeVito. In addition to the success of the stage adaptation of his iconic novel on the perils of divorce, Adler has optioned and sold film rights to more than a dozen of his novels and short stories to Hollywood and major television networks. *Random Hears *(starring Harrison Ford and Kirsten Scott Thomas), *The Sunset Gang *(starring Jerry Stiller, Uta Hagen, Harold Gould, and Doris Roberts), *Private Lies*, *Funny Boys*, *Madeline's Miracles*, *Trans-Siberian Express*, and his Fiona Fitzgerald mystery series are only a few titles that have forever left Adler's mark on contemporary American authorship from page to stage to screen.