Miss Lonely Hearts (Paperback)

from rainpebble

I love the wonderful cover art of this book. I also agree that "Art can be the way out or the way in." I picked up a copy at the library yesterday and read the book last night while my granddaughter was giving birth to my great granddaughter, Madisen (or Madison) Lena. Our baby is here. Yea!~!~!~...

from labrick

I found this book to be a commentary on the concept of hysteria, as posed by Freud. It is stated that Miss Lonelyhearts feels he is hysterical. This is due to the plight of the people who send in there life stories to his column, the shallow irony of modernity, and a renewed fervent faith in Chri...

from debnance

Miss Lonelyhearts is the Dear Abby of her day during America's Great Depression. But Miss Lonelyhearts is a he, not a she, and that's only the beginning of the ways Miss Lonelyhearts deceives her readers. Though he feels pity for his readers and their terrible lives, Miss Lonelyhearts has little ...

from solla

[Miss Lonelyhearts] was a short read. It is only 58 pages long in the edition that I read. It starts by presenting the newspaper advice columnist, male, though he writes as Miss L., and then shows three letters that came from readers of the newspaper. The problems in the letters are not about how...

from larryking1

Now and then I reread books to see how they (or me for that matter) have withstood the test of time. Decades ago, Miss Lonelyhearts, the story of an empath advice columnist for a newspaper, in the throes of a mental breakdown, was considered to be "a comic masterpiece." For me, not so much! This ...