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Richie Segal is a yuppie New Yorker with a co-op in an East Side high-rise, an executive wife who's just received a promotion, and credit card bills to the tune of $20,000. He's failing at his job - selling computer networks to midsized companies - and has just seen on the street, out of the blue, a man who was his neighbor when they were teenagers.
There's something painful about this fellow, Michael Rudnick, now a successful lawyer, that Richie has suppressed for more than two decades. And now that he has begun to remember it, the awful unfairness of their shared shadow history begins to pervade his life, haunting his waking hours...and his dreams. As stress builds, Richard becomes obsessed with two questions: What exactly happened in Michael's basement 22 years ago? and What is he going to do about it now?
Hard Feelings does a nearly faultless job of building tension and following Richie's descent into a world that resembles the one in which he has previously lived.
The ending may be a too cut and dry but, ultimately, this novel will be remembered for a long time as being a terrific - and terrifying - book.
