Hard Feelings
Jason Starr author Sharm Murugiah illustrator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Bedford Square Publishers
Published:26th Feb '15
Should be back in stock very soon
Richie Segal's prospects are pretty miserable and, what's more humiliating, his wife's career is on the up. Richie knows he is a good salesman, but he just can't seem to land an account. He's starting to drink again and worry about whether Paula is seeing that old high school flame or maybe someone new. At thirty-four, he's a little young for a mid-life crisis, but that's what it feels like. And then there are those unwelcome memories of the neighbourhood bully, Michael Rudnick, and what he did to Richie when he was eleven. . .
Just when Richie is about as low as he can get, he runs into Rudnick on the street and knows exactly what he needs to do. Suddenly things seem to be going much better. That is until they get much, much worse.
In the classic tradition of Jim Thompson and Patricia Highsmith, Hard Feelings is a gripping, original novel of paranoia, obsession, and revenge.
a tale that reads like James M Cain modernised by Bret Easton Ellis. It will make you squirm -- Maxim Jakubowski * Guardian Unlimited *
In his psychological thriller Hard Feelings...Starr has plumbed the shallows of his brittle characters and their selfish lives, depicting them in a hard-edged style that is clean, cold and extremely chilling * New York Times Book Review *
Jason Starr is the first writer of his generation to convincingly update the modern crime novel by giving it provocative new spins and Hard Feelings is his most accomplished thriller yet. It might be new-school noir but like the classics of the genre it has a brutal escalation of tension, pungent dialogue, a hardboiled simplicity and grace, and a whopper of an ending. It's also darkly funny and a pure pleasure to read. As you race through it you realize that Jim Thompson has just moved to Manhattan -- Brett Easton Ellis
Convincing and entertaining . . . Hard Feelings dances a mesmerizing tango between reality and its menacing shadow * Time Out New York *
a gripping novel of paranoia and obsession that's damn near impossible to put down -- Jim Driver * Time Out *
ISBN: 9781843445234
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224 pages