 The
Sunset Gang
Warren Adler
With time running short, these intrepid residents of Sunset
Village in Florida continue to thirst for life and love.
The Sunset Gang is as
lively, fun, and courageous a group as you'll find anywhere this side of the
Last Reward. The fact that you'll find them at Sunset Village, a condominium
retirement community in Florida – where an ambulance siren is the theme song
and cycling at a stately pace is strenuous exercise – does not mean that they
are ready to pack it all in. Not by a long shot.
Indeed, sex and romantic
love keep Sunset Village bubbling with activity. If you were to walk down one of
its well-tended paths, you might spot Jenny and Bill sitting on a bench, acting
like young lovers, and never suspect that they are married – to other people!
And at the pool, Max Bernstein, with an expertise that comes from five decades
of skirt chasing, is singling out attractive widows.
But the true beating heart
of Sunset Village is the love of family and friends. Widowed Molly Berkowitz
learns that although her son and daughter may be failures in the eyes of the
world, they are well worth bragging about, and Isaac Kramer begins to feel truly
at home when the gray-haired boys down at the Laundromat start calling him by
his old neighborhood nickname, "Itch."
In America, where
"old" is a dirty word, people over sixty-five are often shut out as if
growing old were some kind of contagious disease. But you cannot shut the Sunset
Gang out of your heart. If you let them in, they will teach you a lot about
living-a subject on which, after all, they are the experts. Read one story
- Free
Now!
A three
hour mini-series on PBS's American Playhouse, starring Uta Hagen, Harold
Gould, Doris Roberts, Anne Meara, and Jerry Stiller.
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