Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: A Painfully Hard Hitting Book

This is a story about Francis Phelan, ex-ball player, father, and husband who is now a skid row bum. There is also Helen who could have been a singer or a college graduate. She is a cultured, tragic lady who is on the streets with Francis.What was, what is, and what could have been is interwoven with the pain and starkness of what is now. This is a poetic and hard hitting look at street people and street life. It is a painfully hard hitting book.