Warren Adler's Books
Mar.16.2013
The War of the Roses has overtime emerged as a synonym for modern divorce and its emotional aftershock. It has since its publication spawned numerous film and stage adaptations, endless discourse on the dynamics of divorce as well as becoming part of the legal jargon describing the proceedings that follow.
Adler's iconic tale takes us from suburban...
Mar.15.2013
What ever happened to the children of the Roses?
"More than 20 years after the publication of The War of the Roses, the divorce story that inspired the famous movie starring Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner, author Warren Adler returns with a biting sequel. Just when it seems the Rose children are headed for self-destruction, hilarious and unpredictable events intervene in...
Jul.19.2004
An arms-dealing family confronts a moral dilemma in the nuclear age. During a family reunion at their ancestral castle, the famed Von Kassel family arms dealers for over a hundred years suddenly find themselves in possession of stolen plutonium capable of creating the most destructive weapon on earth. Previously aloof from the moral implications of their business, the...
Apr.09.2002
The rights of grandparents to visit their beloved grandson pit them against their remarried daughter-in-law. When Charlie and Molly's son dies, their daughter-in-law remarries and is vaulted into an upper class world of money and privilege. She is now determined to lead a new life and keep her son free from the blue-collar influences of her ex in-laws. Forced to sue for their...
Apr.02.2002
With time running short, the lively and intrepid residents of the Sunset Village retirement community in Florida continue to thirst for life. But the true beating heart in these acclaimed short stories is the love of family and friends and the finding of joy in the very act of being alive.
In America, where "old" is a dirty word and people over sixty-five are often treated as...
Apr.02.2002
In an ideal world, they would never have met. Vivien Simpson is a happy housewife with a young son who adores her successful lawyer husband. Edward Davis is an ambitious aide to an important Congressman who loves his wife. When an airplane crash brings about the discovery that their supposedly loving and now deceased spouses were involved in a deeply passionate love affair and...
Mar.15.2002
American Quartet is this first book of Warren Adler's acclaimed mystery series: the Fiona FitzGerald mysteries. In American Quartet, four seemingly unconnected D.C. murders stimulate Fiona FitzGerald’s sense of history as she delves into our country’s dark past. In her search to solve the crimes, she uncovers the disturbing sexual and homicidal obsessions of a...
Jul.01.2001
Thirty-eight year old divorcee Grace Sorentino is in a precarious position, upwardly mobile in age, downwardly mobile inincome. A cosmetician on Palm Beach's fashionable Worth Avenue, shebarely makes enough to support her 16-year old daughter Jackie in theirtiny apartment. Still they're scraping by . . . until Grace loses herjob. Hanging on by a thread, Grace reluctantly pursues a...
“…Adler writes with skill and a sense of scene.” ”
—The New York Times Book Review
About Warren
World-renowned author Warren Adler is best known for "The War of the Roses," his masterpiece fictionalization of a macabre divorce turned into the dark comedy box office hit starring Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito, Adler quickly became the...
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