Random Hearts (novel)
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| Cover to Stonehouse edition of Random Hearts | |
| Author | Warren Adler |
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| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Fiction |
| Publisher | Stonehouse |
| Released | 1984 |
| Media Type | Hardcover/Paperback/E-Text |
| Pages | 293 pages |
| ISBN | 19313044351 (E-Text) |
Random Hearts is a fiction novel by Warren Adler
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[edit] Plot introduction
Loss and infidelity may just be the two things to bring grieving spouses together.
[edit] Plot summary
Vivien Simpson and Edward Davis had never met before, but soon they would be inseparable. Their respective spouses had been carrying on an affair for some time. The affair abruptly ended when their plane to Florida crashes moments after take off. Vivien believed her husband was off to Paris for business. Edward thought his wife was in L.A. Once the bodies are identified, the knowledge they were traveling together is imparted on Vivien and Edward.
They are consumed with curiosity, but no one is alive to answer the most simple of questions; how long it had gone on, where they had met, and why would they lie? All that remains of the love affair is a set of nearly unidentifiable keys. Neither Vivien nor Edward knows what they belong to. More than anything else, they want to know. Compelled by misplaced anger and grief, they center their lives around discovering what their spouses kept from them.
What they ignore most of all is the budding love between the two of them, and perhaps that is what keeps them going. They may have been damaged by their spouses, but they certainly not beyond repair.
[edit] Major themes
Grief is the undeniable main theme of the novel. It tackles how a person lives from the moment they lose the person most important to them. But they have little room to be sad, as the sense of betrayal is overwhelming.
Typical of most of Adler’s work, love is inescapable. It is the redeeming factor that keeps these two characters from sinking into an abyss.
[edit] Film, TV or theatrical adaptations
In 1999, Random Hearts was adapted to into a film of the same name by Sidney Pollack and starring Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas.
