Synopsis: "...vaults ahead to 1975 when all persons of 65 must give up active living and move to special, arranged quarters, special food, special pastimes and special enforced behaviors. The book is a telling mixture of the grim and comic as it goes into what could happen under excessive government care of the oldsters. It deals specifically with a couple who rebelliously become a part of the bland and innocuous existence pervading "Tranquil Acres," where lives are managed without mercy. The author makes splendid use of a tart and satirical humor. She tells the story well and underlines a moral unmistakably that people cannot be lumped together for group treatment, with scant attention to individual traits and dignities." [Info from a newspaper review in The Argus Leader, Oct. 11, 1964]