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All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well

A Novel

A Novel

By Tod Wodicka

By Tod Wodicka

By Tod Wodicka

By Tod Wodicka

By Tod Wodicka
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By Tod Wodicka
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Jan 29, 2008 | 538 Minutes

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    About All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well

    Meet Burt Hecker: he’s a mead-addicted medieval re-enactor from upstate New York who prefers oat gruel to French fries—because potatoes were unavailable in Europe before 1200 A.D.—and is mourning the death of his wife. After an incident involving the police and an illegally borrowed car, Burt is forced to join a local music therapy workshop to manage his anger. With this group, he travels to Germany for a music festival. His real goal, however, is to get to Prague, where his estranged son has been living. Armed with what he thinks is a historically accurate understanding of how to fix the past, Burt sets out on a journey that will change his future.

    About All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well

    Meet Burt Hecker: he’s a mead-addicted medieval re-enactor from upstate New York who prefers oat gruel to French fries—because potatoes were unavailable in Europe before 1200 A.D.—and is mourning the death of his wife. After an incident involving the police and an illegally borrowed car, Burt is forced to join a local music therapy workshop to manage his anger. With this group, he travels to Germany for a music festival. His real goal, however, is to get to Prague, where his estranged son has been living. Armed with what he thinks is a historically accurate understanding of how to fix the past, Burt sets out on a journey that will change his future.

    About All Shall Be Well; and All Shall Be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well

    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 AD; 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 one’s own.

    Wildly inventive and mesmerizing, 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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    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $14.95
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 06, 2009 | 272 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780307278876

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Jan 29, 2008 | 272 Pages | ISBN 9780307377173

    Category: Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $17.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Jan 29, 2008 | 538 Minutes | ISBN 9780739329153

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    Praise

    “Heartbreaking, hilarious.” —The New Yorker“Disarming and brilliant. . . . A tour de force. . . . Wodicka’s prose is a revelation.” —The Boston Globe“Elegant. . . . [Burt’s] efforts to hurl himself into the present are chronicled with smart, casually poetic observations. . . . Even if Burt can’t transcend time, Wodicka’s novel can.” —Entertainment Weekly“This tender, oddball book . . . performs a deft balancing act as it hides love, yearning and regret behind the mouthful of medieval incantation in its title. . . . Startlingly poignant.” —The New York Times Book Review

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