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Language English Publication date 1984 Originally published 1984 Genre Fiction Country United States of America | 3.2/5 Goodreads Publisher Stonehouse Pages 293 pages Adaptations Random Hearts (1999) OCLC 10230946 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Hardcover/Paperback/E-Text ISBN 0-02-500290-2 (hardcover) Similar Warren Adler books, Other books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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. 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 to which neither Vivien nor Edward knows what they belong. They center their lives around discovering what their spouses kept from them while finding themselves slowly becoming closer to each other.