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When All Is Said and Done

ISBN:
978-1-55597-494-7
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Trim Size:
5 x 7
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Pages:
224
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Pub Date:
January 22, 2008
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Subject:
FICTION/Literary
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When All Is Said and Done

Fiction > Novels

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When All Is Said and Done

A Novel

Robert Hill

Price $14.00
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With evocative, freewheeling prose ( the run-on sentences that were her married lif
e ), Hill. . . nimbly salvages one family's striving from an era of grasping and c
onsumerism. Publishers Weekly

Mr. Hill s daring style is full of candied rewards. . . . Reading [Mr. Hill s] novel
reminds us how usual most novels are; his is unusual. . . The work of an individ
ual who has been minding his own business in Portland. The New York Sun

About the Book

Paperback edition of what Booklist calls "a resounding performance"

Eight years and four jobs and five pregnancies and meetings and train schedules
and formula and diapers and deadlines and clients and mortgage and croup and a r
evolving door of baby nurses and Dan stagnating in that civilian job I convinced
him to take when the Air Force wanted him back for Korea of all things, they go
t Elvis, they didn't need Dan, a man of his age, for crying out loud, and after
what they did to him in that hospital upstate . . .
It is the early 1960s and Myrmy stubs her toe in the predawn hours on he
r way to soothe her infant son, cursing the latest nurse for not waking up, agai
n. Dressed to the nines, it is Myrmy who is off to an executive position writing
advertising copy for shampoo. Her husband, Dan, who fought in two wars, sell ti
es and cooks dinner. A Jewish couple living in an exclusive suburb of New York,
Myrmy powers through her life in high heels and Dan silently suffers the mysteri
ous aftereffects of a radiation experiment conducted by the military. Together t
hey raise a family.
"From the first glorious sentence to its last astounding word, Robert Hi
ll's When All is Said and Done is a treasure. The sophisticated wit and luxuriou
s language of this brilliant novel weave a story of one family's complex heart a
nd history and their journey through 1950s/60s suburban Connecticut and all its
prejudices. Read this American saga and weep." Tom Spanbauer
978-1-55597-602-6
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Trim Size:
5 1/2 x 8 1/4
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Pages:
272
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Pub Date:
January 17, 2012
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Subject:

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Spring

Fiction > Novels

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Spring
A Novel

David Szalay

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Plenty of novelists have captivated readers with stories of passionate new relati
onships full of romance, optimism, and hot sex. In Spring, David Szalay pulls of
f a much harder trick, writing engrossingly about new lovers who manage to go st
raight to irritation, pessimism and pain. . . . This might be pretty bleak stuff
if Szalay were not such a lyrical, precise writer, deftly capturing the hyperaw
areness that often stands in for real communication between couples. This awkwar
d dance may be anything but dreamy, but it s irresistible to watch. O, The Oprah Maga
zine

[Szalay] draws his main characters with subtly devastating insight.

The Boston Globe

About the Book

The U.S. debut of leading U.K. author David Szalay, named one of The Daily Teleg
raph s twenty best British novelists under forty

James is a man with a checkered past sporadic entrepreneur, one-time film producer
, almost a dot-com millionaire now alone in a flat in Bloomsbury, running a shady
horse-racing-tips operation. Katherine is a manager at a luxury hotel, a job she d
intended to leave years ago, and is separated from her husband. The novel unfol
ds in 2006, at the end of the money-for-nothing years, as a chance meeting leads
to an awkward tryst and James tries to make sense of a relationship where no mean
s maybe and a yes can never be taken for granted.
David Szalay builds a novel of immense resonance as he cycles though perspective
s that add layers of depth to the hesitations, missteps, and tensions as James t
ries to win Katherine. James s other pursuit is money, and Spring follows his inve
stments and schemes, from a half share in a thoroughbred to a suit-and-tie day j
ob he s taken to pay the bills. Spring is a sharply tuned novel so nuanced and pre
cise in its psychology that it establishes Szalay as a major talent.
Additional Reviews

[Szalay] gets to the heart of what it means to encounter disappointment and heart
ache. His characters . . . are skilled in picking up the pieces of their broken
lives and moving on to something better, however elusive better may prove to be. Bo
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