CreativeCreative NonfictionEssaysMemoirsOn Writing.Poetry.Book DetailsWhen All Is Said and Done ISBN: 978-1-55597-494-7.Trim Size: 5 x 7.Pages: 224.Pub Date: January 22, 2008.Subject: FICTION/Literary.. When All Is Said and Done Fiction > Novels. When All Is Said and Done A NovelRobert HillPrice $14.00 Paperback. Share: See When All Is Said and Done on Good Reads.With evocative, freewheeling prose (the run-on sentences that were her married life), Hill. . . nimbly salvages one family's striving from an era of grasping and consumerism.Publishers WeeklyMr. Hills daring style is full of candied rewards. . . . Reading [Mr. Hills] novel reminds us how usual most novels are; his is unusual. . . The work of an individual who has been minding his own business in Portland.The New York SunAbout the BookPaperback 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 revolving 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 got 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 her way to soothe her infant son, cursing the latest nurse for not waking up, again. 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 ties 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 mysterious aftereffects of a radiation experiment conducted by the military. Together they raise a family."From the first glorious sentence to its last astounding word, Robert Hill's When All is Said and Done is a treasure. The sophisticated wit and luxurious language of this brilliant novel weave a story of one family's complex heart and 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.Trim Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4.Pages: 272.Pub Date: January 17, 2012.Subject: FICTION/Literary.. Spring Fiction > Novels. Spring A NovelDavid SzalayPrice $15.00 Paperback. Share: See Spring on Good Reads.Plenty of novelists have captivated readers with stories of passionate new relationships full of romance, optimism, and hot sex. In Spring, David Szalay pulls off a much harder trick, writing engrossingly about new lovers who manage to go straight to irritation, pessimism and pain. . . . This might be pretty bleak stuff if Szalay were not such a lyrical, precise writer, deftly capturing the hyperawareness that often stands in for real communication between couples. This awkward dance may be anything but dreamy, but its irresistible to watch.O, The Oprah Magazine[Szalay] draws his main characters with subtly devastating insight.The Boston GlobeAbout the BookThe U.S. debut of leading U.K. author David Szalay, named one of The Daily Telegraphs twenty best British novelists under fortyJames is a man with a checkered pastsporadic entrepreneur, one-time film producer, almost a dot-com millionairenow alone in a flat in Bloomsbury, running a shady horse-racing-tips operation. Katherine is a manager at a luxury hotel, a job shed intended to leave years ago, and is separated from her husband. The novel unfolds 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 means maybe and a yes can never be taken for granted. David Szalay builds a novel of immense resonance as he cycles though perspectives that add layers of depth to the hesitations, missteps, and tensions as James tries to win Katherine. Jamess other pursuit is money, and Spring follows his investments and schemes, from a half share in a thoroughbred to a suit-and-tie day job hes taken to pay the bills. Spring is a sharply tuned novel so nuanced and precise 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 heartache. 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.Booklist