Things arenโt going so well for Richie Segal. His prospects at the job are pretty miserable and, whatโs more humiliating, his wifeโs prospects at her job are pretty good. Richie knows heโs a good salesman, but he just canโt seem to land an account. And heโs starting to drink again. And worry about whether Paulaโs seeing that old high school flame, or maybe someone new. Itโs a little early, at thirty-four, for a mid-life crisis, but thatโs pretty much what it feels like. And thereโre those unwelcome memories of the neighborhood bully, Michael Rudnick and what he did to Richie when he was thirteen. Richie Segalโs feeling, well, abused.
Just when Richieโs about as low as he can get, he runs into Rudnick on the street and knows exactly what he needs to do. And suddenly things seem to be going much better. That is until they get much, much worse. In the classic tradition of Jim Thompson and James M. Cain, Hard Feelings is novel that lets us into the mind of an ordinary guy capable of things that even he couldnโt have imagined.
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