THE SUNSET GANG REVISITED: In Warren Adler's latest e-mail newsletter, the Jackson writer muses on the staying power of "The Sunset Gang." This was a book of nine short stories about Florida retirees published in 1976. Adler based it on his own parents' experiences living in a condo in West Palm Beach. Many of these retirees were mostly Jewish immigrants who had fled Europe and Russia for lives in Brooklyn and later in sprawling retirement communities in Florida. While only nine of the stories were included in the '76 version from Viking, all fifteen stories are in "Never Too Late for Love," published by Carl Schrier's Homestead Press in Teton County. Linda Lavin adapted three of the stories for a PBS series. One of the stories, "Yiddish," was turned into a stage musical.
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