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Random Hearts
	Cover to Stonehouse edition of Random Hearts
Author	Warren Adler
Language	English
Genre	Fiction
Publisher	Stonehouse
Publication date	1984
Publication place	USA
Media type	Hardcover/Paperback/E-Text
Pages	293 pages
ISBN	0-02-500290-2 (hardcover)
OCLC	10230946
Dewey Decimal	813/.54 19
LC Class	PS3551.D64 R3 1984

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Random Hearts is a 1984 novel by American author Warren Adler, who wrote the novel after being moved by the 1982 Air Florida Flight 90 disaster.^[1] In 1999, the novel was made into a motion picture directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas.

Plot summary

Vivien Simpson, a housewife with a young son, and Edward Davis, an aide to a congressman, had never met before, but soon they would be inseparable. Their respective spouses, Orson and Lily, had been carrying on an affair for some time. The affair abruptly ended when their plane to Miami 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 to Vivien and Edward.

They are consumed with curiosity, but nobody is alive to answer their questions. All that remains of the clandestine love affair is a set of nearly unidentifiable keys; neither Vivien nor Edward knows what they belong to. They center their lives around discovering what their spouses kept from them while finding themselves slowly becoming closer to each other.

References

^ James Barron (15 January 1999). "Public Lives". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 July 2013.

External links

Random Hearts at the Internet Book List
Warren Adler Official Website

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[1] James Barron (15 January 1999). "Public Lives". The New York Times. Retrieved 15 July 2013.

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-  name     = Random Hearts |
+{{About|the novel|the film|Random Hearts (film)}}
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+| caption  = Cover to Stonehouse edition of ''Random Hearts''
-  producer         = [[Martin Jurow]]  & [[Marykay Powell]] |
-  director       = [[Sydney Pollack]] <br>[[Denis L. Stewart]] (1st Ass't)  |
-  writer         = [[Warren Adler]] (novel)<br>[[Darryl Ponicsan]] (adaptation)<br>[[Kurt Luedtke]] (screenplay) |
-  starring       = [[Harrison Ford]]<br>[[Kristin Scott Thomas]] |
-  music         = [[Dave Grusin]] |
-cinematography = [[Philippe Rousselot]] |
-  editing         = [[William Steinkamp]] |
-  distributor    = [[Columbia Pictures]]  |
-  released   = [[October 8]], [[1999]] |
-  runtime        = 133 min. |
-language = [[English language|English]] |
-}}
-''''' Random Hearts ''''' is a [[1984 in literature|1984]] [[Warren Adler's Random Hearts|novel]] by [[United States|American]] author [[Warren Adler]] that was made into a [[1999 in film|1999]]  [[United States|American]] [[motion picture]] [[drama film|drama]] and [[romance film|romance]].
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+| isbn = 0-02-500290-2
+| isbn_note = (hardcover)
+| dewey= 813/.54 19
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+''''' Random Hearts ''''' is a [[1984 in literature|1984]] novel by [[United States|American]] author [[Warren Adler]], who wrote the novel after being moved by the 1982 [[Air Florida Flight 90]] disaster.<ref>{{cite news |title=Public Lives |author=James Barron |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/15/nyregion/public-lives.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=15 January 1999 |accessdate=15 July 2013}}</ref> In [[1999 in film|1999]], the novel was made into a [[Random Hearts|motion picture]] directed by [[Sydney Pollack]] and starring [[Harrison Ford]] and [[Kristin Scott Thomas]].
-'''''Random Hearts''''' is a [[fiction]] novel by [[Warren Adler]]
-==Plot introduction==
+== Plot summary ==
-Loss and infidelity may just be the two things to bring grieving spouses together.
+Vivien Simpson, a housewife with a young son, and Edward Davis, an aide to a congressman, had never met before, but soon they would be inseparable.  Their respective spouses, Orson and Lily, had been carrying on an affair for some time.  The affair abruptly ended when their plane to Miami 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 to Vivien and Edward.
-==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.
+They are consumed with curiosity, but nobody is alive to answer their questions.  All that remains of the clandestine love affair is a set of nearly unidentifiable keys; neither Vivien nor Edward knows what they belong to. They center their lives around discovering what their spouses kept from them while finding themselves slowly becoming closer to each other.
+==References==
-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.
+{{Reflist}}
-==Major themes==
+==External links==
+*{{Iblist title|id=33044|title=Random Hearts}}
-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.
+*[http://www.warrenadler.com/title-randomhearts.shtml Warren Adler Official Website]
+[[Category:1984 American novels]]
-Typical of most of [[Warren Adler|Adler’s]] work, love is inescapable.  It is the redeeming factor that keeps these two characters from sinking into an abyss.
+[[Category:American novels adapted into films]]
-==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]].
-It tells the story of a man and a woman who meet when their loved ones are killed in a plane crash. They find each other's keys in their spouse's possessions and realize that they were having an affair. The story evolves around the relationship between the two survivors.
-[[Image:random_hearts DVD.jpg|thumb|Random Hearts DVD cover]]
-==Primary cast==
-*[[Harrison Ford]]  :  Sergeant William 'Dutch' Van Den Broeck
-*[[Kristin Scott Thomas]]  :  Kay Chandler
-*[[Charles S. Dutton]]  :  Alcee
-*[[Bonnie Hunt]]  :  Wendy Judd
-*[[Dennis Haysbert]]  :  Detective George Beaufort
-*[[Sydney Pollack]]  :  Carl Broman
-*[[Richard Jenkins]]  :  Truman Trainor
-*[[Paul Guilfoyle]]  :  Dick Montoya
-*[[Susanna Thompson]]  :  Peyton Van Den Broeck
-*[[Peter Coyote]]  :  Cullen Chandler
-*[[Dylan Baker]]  :  Richard Judd
-*[[Lynne Thigpen]]  :  Phyllis Bonaparte
-*[[Reiko Aylesworth]]  :  Mary Claire Clark
-*[[Edie Falco]]  :  Janice
-*[[Alex Trebek]]  :  [[Jeopardy!]] Host
-==External links==
-*{{iblist title|id=33044|title=Random Hearts}}
-*{{imdb title|id=0156934|title=Random Hearts}}
-*[http://www.warrenadler.com/title-randomhearts.shtml Official Website]
-*[http://www.warrenadler.com/title-randomhearts-sample.shtml Read the first chapter]
+{{1980s-novel-stub}}
-[[Category:1984 novels]]
-[[Category:1999 films]]
-[[Category:Films based on romance books]]
-[[Category:Drama films]]
-[[Category:Romance films]]
-[[Category:English-language films]]
-{{drama-film-stub}}
-[[de:Begegnung des Schicksals]]