When All Is Said and Done

by Robert Hill

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555974422
• ISBN13: 9781555974428
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

True to Life

The first novel by Robert Hill provides insights into suburbian life and how persons from varying backgrounds intermingle and impact each other.

Amazing First Novel

That this is a first novel is truly amazing. It's a very sophisticated book, style-wise, employing prose that verges on stream-of-consciousness, yet never is it obscure. In other words, the style is very high-flung and literary but never does the reader feel either the need to struggle in understanding what's going on, nor get the impression the author is self-consciously attempting to imitate any other big name "literary" author. Robert Hill's voice is singular, and uniquely his own. As such, this is a phenomenal first novel already showing Hill to be a power to be reckoned with. When All is Said and Done is a tremendously wise, and often very witty, take on long-term married relationships. It looks at them honestly and without flinching, even when things get a bit ugly. And they do get ugly! However, throughout it all we never lose sympathy with any of the characters. Hill does a fantastic job depicting both human failings and foibles as well as dignity and integrity. Just a wonderful first effort. [..]

A TRUE TREASURE!

This debut novel is definitely something that should not be missed. It is written in the voices of both the two central figures of the husband and wife. The novel does a great job of navigating us through the marriage, family, love, careers, victories and set backs of the time periods of this rich story. You laugh, cry and feel for them as you read about the lives of Dan and Myrmy dealing with the realities of the their day. The outstanding command of the english language is personified by the dialogue of the central characters and the ancillary people involved. When I finished reading this book, I wanted more!

BUY THIS BOOK

As you get closer to the end of this dazzling book, you'll find yourself slowing down, trying to avoid the inevitable. This is a story of relationship, of time, of place and, mostly, of language. Robert Hill's facility with words will leave you dizzy with laughter and tears and utter astonishment at what our language can do. It is a tour de force, a magnum opus, a triumph.

EXCITING BOLD ENTERTAINING NARRATIVE EXCELLS

A refreshing, original retrospective of one couple's life-enhacing challenges in the "Camelot" years of the 50's and 60's. Set in the Connecticut suburbs, this rapidly paced, emotionally charged narrative is delivered to us with great wit, pathos and humanity! I am sure Robert Hill's debut novel is destined to be viewed as an important contribution to the American literary scene.