Fiction review: 'The Development' by John Barth: "'The Development' contains nine related stories set within a gated community in Chesapeake Bay country. Its residents, mostly upper-middle-class retirees 'in the dawn of the new millennium and the evening of their lives,' hold toga parties, have affairs, fret about their distant children and deal with suicides, hurricanes and Peeping Toms."
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Can't wait for the movie. Especially the geriatric toga party.
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Reminds me of _Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias_, a nonfiction book about Florida's "The Villages" community (by Andrew Blechman). Reportedly there's a fair amount of geriatric sex in that book, too.
Are you sure it is fiction? Now, a book about the actions of some board members and industry associates would be a real tell all! Fiction it is not!
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