Here's a mid-month reminder on how to win a free signed copy
of Jason Starr's next book. I don't know how many people have
mailed Vintage, but hey, it's free and signed, and he's
good.
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In celebration of the publication of its first ever original
novel, HARD FEELINGS by Jason Starr, Vintage Crime/Black
Lizard is delighted to offer RARA-AVIS subscribers 10 free
signed first editions of the novel. To be eligible, please
send a note with your name and mailing address to
vintageanchorpublicity@randomhouse.com with the heading
JASON STARR CONTEST. Entrees must be received by January
1, 2002 to be eligible. Only one entry per person
please. 10 winners will be selected at random and
winners will be posted on the RARA-AVIS message board by
January 10, 2002. HARD FEELINGS will be published on January
15, 2002. No purchase necessary. Of course, the normal
qualifications apply: void where prohibited by law,
and neither Vintage nor RARA-AVIS are responsible for
lost or misdirected entries.
HARD FEELINGS by Jason Starr A Vintage Crime/ Black Lizard
Original
$12.00 (Can. $18.00) Trade/ 224 pp. ISBN: 0-375-72709-4
"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." --Bret Easton
Ellis
In the classic tradition of Jim Thompson, Hard Feelings lets
us into the mind of an ordinary guy capable of things that
even he couldn't have imagined. Richie Segal's prospects are
pretty miserable and, what's more humiliating, his wife's
career is looking pretty good. Richie knows he's a good
salesman, but he just can't seem to land an account. And he's
starting to drink again. And worry about whether Paula's
seeing that old high school flame, or maybe someone new. It's
a little early, at thirty-four, for a mid-life crisis, but
that's pretty much what it feels like. And there're those
unwelcome memories of the neighborhood bully, Michael
Rudnick, and what he did to Richie when he was eleven. Richie
Segal's feeling, well, abused. Just when Richie's about as
low as he can get, he runs into Rudnick on the street and
knows exactly what he needs to do. Then suddenly things seem
to be going much better. That is until they get much, much
worse.
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