Miss Lonelyhearts

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Summary: Comic brilliance, grotesque violence and early death
Review: This work is in a way very difficult to read. The painful stories Miss Lonelyhearts receive often have a grotesque dimension but also may touch the heart. The novel's ironic play with its hero who is at once fake and real sufferer, sympathizer and exploiter makes it difficult for the reader to know how exactly to take it. The writing has a violence and power in it but its tragic story too somehow misses to make its fullest case in sympathy, for Miss Lonelyhearts appears somehow real and unreal at once.
The work of a brilliant but deeply disturbed young writer whose life and work had no second act.