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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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-''''' Random Hearts ''''' is a [[1984 in literature|1984]] novel by [[United States|American]] author [[Warren Adler]]. In [[1999 in film|1999]], the novel was made into a [[motion picture]] directed by [[Sydney Pollack]] and starring [[Harrison Ford]] and [[Kristin Scott Thomas]].
+''''' 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]].
+== Plot summary ==
-==Plot summary (novel)==
 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 which neither Vivien nor Edward knows what they belong to. They center their lives around discovering what their spouses kept from them whilst finding themselves slowly becoming closer to each other.
+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==
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 *{{Iblist title|id=33044|title=Random Hearts}}
 *[http://www.warrenadler.com/title-randomhearts.shtml Warren Adler Official Website]
-*[http://www.warrenadler.com/title-randomhearts-sample.shtml Read the first chapter]
-[[Category:1984 novels]]
+[[Category:1984 American novels]]
+[[Category:American novels adapted into films]]
+{{1980s-novel-stub}}