Miss Lonelyhearts - Acting Edition

"It is a difficult piece of work to put one's finger on, for it scarcely falls into any of the kinds of light reading with which we are familiar. Its wit and satire are as bitter as Swift's; and its despair, on its unambitious level, as profound....The novel is ostensibly a piece of humorous fiction. But do not class it with the clever wisecracking little volumes that emerge seasonally from the presses to carry on the tradition of bald American exaggeration. It is ostensibly satiric. but its irony has roots to it. The wit is hard, brilliant and very funny. But the tragic letters seeking help and advice are human documents and well sustain the burden of the underlying meaning."Howard Teichmann is the author of 'Miss Lonelyhearts - Acting Edition', published 1959 under ISBN 9780822207634 and ISBN 082220763X.