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Warren adler, a prolific novelist who launched a long and lucrative hollywood career with his classic story the war of the roses the story of a hollowedout marriage that became a. Adler s international hit stage adaptation of the novel will premiere on broadway in 20152016. On the other hand, the movie the war of the roses was a mini masterpiece, it plays somewhere in the world at least every day. Warren adler, the war of the roses author, is dead at 91 04192019 warren adler, a lateblooming novelist who wrote the war of the roses, a bestselling dark comedy, and the basis of a hit movie, about the nightmarish deterioration of a marriage, died on april 15 at his home in manhattan. The film follows a wealthy couple with a seemingly perfect marriage. See the complete the war of the roses series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles. The war of the roses love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
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