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Never Too Late for Love: Fiction [Paperback]

Warren Adler (Author)
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November 1995
More stories from The Sunset Gang. 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.
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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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Product Details

  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Stonehouse Press (November 1995)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0943972450
  • ISBN-13: 978-0943972459
  • Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,500,328 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Warren Adler is a world-renowned novelist, short story writer and playwright. His 32 novels and story collections have been translated into more than 25 languages and two of his novels, The War of the Roses and Random Hearts, have been made into enormously popular movies, shown continually throughout the world.

Three short stories from his acclaimed collection, The Sunset Gang, have been adapted as a trilogy and shown repeatedly on the Public Television network.

Mr. Adler's blogs appear regularly in the Huffington Post and other sites throughout the world and his short stories appear in numerous anthologies.

Mr. Adler is a pioneer in electronic publishing. He was one of the first authors to acquire his complete backlist and to convert his entire library to digital publishing formats.

A product of the New York public school system, Mr. Adler graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School and New York University, where he majored in English literature. In 2009, he was honored by being chosen "Alumni of the Year" at NYU's School of Arts and Science. He has taught novel writing at honors seminars at NYU.

After graduating from New York University with a degree in English literature, Mr. Adler worked for the New York Daily News before becoming Editor of the Queens Post, a prize winning weekly newspaper on Long Island. His column, "Pepper on the Side," became a staple of a number of newspapers in the country.

During the Korean War, after basic training, he was recruited by Armed Forces Press Service to serve in the Pentagon as the only Washington Correspondent for the service. His Washington by-line went all over the world and was published in every publication put out by the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard.

 

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3.0 out of 5 stars funny, well written stories, February 16, 2000
I really liked this book, but could only give it three stars. The problem was most of the stories condoned extra-marital affairs, and I believe in monogomy so the subject matter was a bit touchy. All the stories take place in a retirement community where a bunch of people live. The women are real yentas (busybodies) and you will especially enjoy the book if you are aware of jewish culture. The best story was the one about a new widower and all the old ladies who were trying to get their hooks into him. He was totally unaware of the reasons behind their actions. I also enjoyed the story about the old couple whose sons hate each other, and how much the mother wants them to be friends. I can relate, I hate my siblings and they hate me, and there is my poor old jewish mother in the middle!

The book is an easy, fun read and if not for the extramarital affairs, I would have given it a 5

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