Their latest project had been the kitchen, which was to be the core of Barbara's new-found career as a caterer of gourmet foods. Living in the mansion they had restored together, with the antiques they had collected together, their rare wines, their orchids, and their children - all the beautiful things they owned - they were happy. Sharing, for Oliver and Barbara Rose, was a way of life. A passion that united them and now was about to tear them apart. Now the two objets d'art sat together on a shelf in the Roses' home - symbols of the passion their owners shared. The figurines belonged together, and so did the Roses.
Oliver had just bought a Staffordshire figurine - one of a pair - but Barbara outbid him for its mate.
The War of the Roses taps into our worst fears about lost love and failed marriages, then stylishly serves them up in devilishly delectable mouthfuls for us to savor, one stinging sentence at a time. No wonder this book became a worldwide best seller. The disintegration of the Roses themselves and their house almost takes on a horror-like quality.Īnd yet beneath all the bitter backstabbing, Adler’s book conveys the deep love the Roses still secretly feel for each other. The movie might have strictly been a black comedy, but Adler’s book achieves something more. Giorgio’s understated tone enables the audiobook to pack a serious emotional punch. Instead, Giorgio’s steady, deep voice makes all the ludicrous things the Roses do to drive each other out of the house feel and sound real. If he had tried to oversell his lines and give a heavy-handed performance, the novel would have felt contrived and unbelievable. Giorgio is smart to take a light approach to the increasingly dark subject matter in the book. But rather than give the book an over-the-top reading, Giorgio delivers each sentence in a steady, matter-of-fact tone that could also deliver a line like “Once upon a time…” - if this were a Grimm fairy tale about two people seriously determined to kill each other.
The book gradually gets darker and darker as Oliver and Barbara raise the stakes in their winner-take-all battle over who gets what in their messy divorce. Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner stared in a famous 1989 film adaptation of this 1981 novel, but the film is nothing compared to the newly-released audio version of this delicious black comedy.ĭave Giorgio brings just the right touch to his reading of The War of the Roses. mansion in Warren Adler’s best-selling novel, The War of the Roses. The same could be said about the guerilla war waged by Oliver and Barbara Rose over their beloved Washington, D.C. There was nothing civil about the 15th-century ‘War of the Roses’ for the English throne.
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