reviews-lonely

I would like to recommend to poets and writers generally a new book, We, the Lonely People: Searching for Community by Ralph Keyes. An excellent reporter and lively writer himself, Keyes studies the effect of the breakdown of community in our mass anonymous society as it is expressed in our daily lives. He writes about …

We, the Lonely People marshals encyclopedic evidence of the pains of isolation in our people’s faces and some of their efforts, some sane and some curiously bizarre, to redress the community gap. Mr. Keyes is not very angry, possibly too accepting, but his facts are fascinating and well-documented. … I liked this book very much …

Serious, thought-provoking, and enjoyable.

A well-written, interesting and thoroughly documented book on a somewhat worn theme of the increasingly depersonalized world, yet it does bring new insights and approaches.

Keyes identifies what is happening to us and our communities, and the examples he uses are sharp and clear. The word “community” is dropped so often in our talking that possibly it has become fuzzy in our minds. It’s good that someone such as Ralph Keyes has taken this journey and observed and written about …

We, the Lonely People is an exciting book about the American society of today … There is humor and pathos in the knowledgeable observations of the author and in the documented human interest discussions.