Mourning Glory [Paperback]

Warren Adler (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Kensington (2001)
• ISBN-10: 1931304238
• ISBN-13: 978-1931304238
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)

More About the Author

Warren Adler is a world-renowned novelist, short story writer and playwright. His 32 novels and story collections have been translated into more than 25 languages and two of his novels, The War of the Roses and Random Hearts, have been made into enormously popular movies, shown continually throughout the world.

Three short stories from his acclaimed collection, The Sunset Gang, have been adapted as a trilogy and shown repeatedly on the Public Television network.

Mr. Adler's blogs appear regularly in the Huffington Post and other sites throughout the world and his short stories appear in numerous anthologies.

Mr. Adler is a pioneer in electronic publishing. He was one of the first authors to acquire his complete backlist and to convert his entire library to digital publishing formats.

A product of the New York public school system, Mr. Adler graduated from Brooklyn Technical High School and New York University, where he majored in English literature. In 2009, he was honored by being chosen "Alumni of the Year" at NYU's School of Arts and Science. He has taught novel writing at honors seminars at NYU.

After graduating from New York University with a degree in English literature, Mr. Adler worked for the New York Daily News before becoming Editor of the Queens Post, a prize winning weekly newspaper on Long Island. His column, "Pepper on the Side," became a staple of a number of newspapers in the country.

During the Korean War, after basic training, he was recruited by Armed Forces Press Service to serve in the Pentagon as the only Washington Correspondent for the service. His Washington by-line went all over the world and was published in every publication put out by the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force and Coast Guard.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great and engrossing summer read!, July 9, 2001

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"wangel2" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mourning Glory (Hardcover)

I consider myself to be a reader of discriminating and eclectic tastes. Favorite authors? James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Anton Chekhov, Agatha Christie, John Irving (and even Jude Deveraux, I guiltily admit). Recently, I've added Warren Adler to that list! Granted, he definitely is no Hemingway in terms of talent and lasting literary value, but he knows how to write an engrossing read. He's not very well-known (he seems to have been more popular in the 70s and 80s), but definitely should be! One of his old novels, "The War of the Roses," somehow managed to find its way into my family's bookshelves, and, bored one day this summer, I decided to pick it up. I didn't expect much, and so I was very pleasantly surprised. I couldn't put it down; it was a fascinating story of the worst divorce imaginable and a great read. So I decided to try some of his other novels, and bought the ebook of "Mourning Glory." The great plot is what hooked me in at first. It's about an attractive Palm Beach woman in her thirties Grace Sorentino who is fired from her job at Saks, and, with little money and a teenage daughter who wants the better things in life, devises a plan to lure a rich widower to her side. By going to funerals of their recently deceased wives, of all things! Of course, things don't quite turn out as planned (she didn't factor falling in love with her prey into the equation) and Grace, the heroine of the novel, must deal with the consequences. "Mourning Glory" has romance, humor, drama, a wonderful portrayal of a mother-daughter relationship, and even steamy sex scenes to spice things up a bit. Not to mention a neo-Nazi skinhead! Adler, an older middle-aged man, somehow manages to make his two main female characters, Grace and her daughter, very real and vibrant, and he really seems to have a lot of insight into the female mind and psyche. I liked the fact that Adler wrote about people with flaws, whose lives were far from perfect but whom you empathized with because of those flaws. "Mourning Glory" is definitely not your typical romance, and it was refreshing! I would've liked more development of the daughter Jackie, however. She was a very interesting character, in my opinion, and more on her teenage, tortured soul would've been welcome. But I'm being very nitpicky there! There's not much to complain about. In short, if you're looking for a great and fast-paced read that would be perfect on a summer vacation or on the beach, or anywhere really, you can't go wrong with "Mourning Glory" by Warren Adler. Adler has his own website http://www.warrenadler.com with more information on "Mourning Glory" and his other novels.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing!, March 4, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Mourning Glory (Hardcover)

I picked up this book on sale and thought what a treat, since I enjoyed the cynicism and nastiness in Mr. Adler's the War of the Roses... Unfortunately, I have to agree with all the other reviewers who have given this novel a low mark. It was pure dribble all the way through!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars don't get other folks ++ review, February 21, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Mourning Glory (Hardcover)

I got this book in audiobook, which should be really easy to take. It was not. The book is full of overly sentimental sentiments, old-fashioned ideas about male and females roles and relationship, and corny lines. It's plays on the couple's explicit sex life until I start to say "who cares." And, it goes on and on and on--ad nauseum about how guilty the lead character feels. Okay, okay, I get it. I could not even finish the story--and again, it was a book on tape.