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Meet Burt Hecker: a mead-drinking, tunic-wearing medieval re-enactor from upstate New York. He prefers oat gruel to French fries because potatoes were unavailable in Europe before 1200 A.D.; and, at war with the modern world, he enjoys hosting large-scale re-enactments at the Victorian bed and breakfast he calls home.
But Burt has some serious problems. After an incident involving the New York State police and an illegally borrowed car, Burt is forced to join a local music therapy workshop to manage his anger. He gallantly accompanies the group to Germany for a festival celebrating the music of the visionary saint Hildegard von Bingen - but he has no plan to return home. His real destination is Prague: he must find his estranged son Tristan, who, he believes, has lost his way in the Bohemian city.
As we move between past and present, the tragic details of Burt's life are gradually revealed: the recent death of his beloved wife; the circumstances that separate him from his children; his complicated relationship with his mother-in-law, And we begin to understand, with heart-wrenching clarity, Burt's eccentric and poignant devotion to a time other than his own.
Wildly inventive and mesmerising, Tod Wodicka's debut is a modern-day Arthurian quest that introduces one of the most winning oddball characters to come along in years.
But Burt has some serious problems. After an incident involving the New York State police and an illegally borrowed car, Burt is forced to join a local music therapy workshop to manage his anger. He gallantly accompanies the group to Germany for a festival celebrating the music of the visionary saint Hildegard von Bingen - but he has no plan to return home. His real destination is Prague: he must find his estranged son Tristan, who, he believes, has lost his way in the Bohemian city.
As we move between past and present, the tragic details of Burt's life are gradually revealed: the recent death of his beloved wife; the circumstances that separate him from his children; his complicated relationship with his mother-in-law, And we begin to understand, with heart-wrenching clarity, Burt's eccentric and poignant devotion to a time other than his own.
Wildly inventive and mesmerising, Tod Wodicka's debut is a modern-day Arthurian quest that introduces one of the most winning oddball characters to come along in years.
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"Bursting with humour and weighted with sadness" (Financial Times)
"Vibrant, original, at times hilarious...reminiscent of Philip Roth or Jonathan Franzen (or The Royal Tenenbaums, for that matter)" (New Statesman)
"Wodicka has crafted an eccentric tale full of humour and compassion" (Guardian)
"A boisterous debut...a genuinely moving narrative - applause is justified" (Times Literary Supplement)
"Packed with wit, humour and wise epigrammatic observations on life" (Big Issue)
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"Vibrant, original, at times hilarious...reminiscent of Philip Roth or Jonathan Franzen (or The Royal Tenenbaums, for that matter)" (New Statesman)
"Wodicka has crafted an eccentric tale full of humour and compassion" (Guardian)
"A boisterous debut...a genuinely moving narrative - applause is justified" (Times Literary Supplement)
"Packed with wit, humour and wise epigrammatic observations on life" (Big Issue)
Dazzlingly inventive and utterly original, All Shall Be
Well... is a surprise and a delight.
Well... is a surprise and a delight.
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- PublisherPantheon Books
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0375424733
- ISBN 13 9780375424731
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages266
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