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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. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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  • "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. From the Trade Paperback edition."@en
  • "Zelfs als zijn vrouw op sterven ligt, gaat een man nog geheel op in zijn middeleeuwse rollenspelen."
  • "Feeling unsuited to the era in which he lives, Burt Hecker, a sixty-three-year-old medieval re-enactor, travels to Germany to celebrate the nine-hundredth birthday of Saint Hildegard von Bingen and to rescue his estranged son Tristan from Prague."@en
  • "Feeling unsuited to the era in which he lives, Burt Hecker, a sixty-three-year-old medieval re-enactor, travels to Germany to celebrate the nine-hundredth birthday of Saint Hildegard von Bingen and to rescue his estranged son Tristan from Prague."
  • "A wildly inventive, mesmerizing, and deeply moving debut novel that features one of the most winning, oddball characters to come along in years."
  • "American writer Wodicka has created a hilarious yet tragic anti-hero up there with Garp and Yossarian in the form of Burt Hecker, a sixty-something medieval re-enactor and widower with a serious home-made mead habit and two dysfunctional and estranged children. When Hecker, mentally retreating into the sanctuary of his faux medieval world, sells the family home and goes on a pilgrimage across modern Europe to find his son, using the cover of the 900th birthday celebrations of St Hildegard von Bingen, his resulting dislocation and descent into chaos is both fantastically funny and incredibly moving."

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
  • "Psychological fiction"
  • "Fantasy fiction"@en
  • "Fantasy fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"

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  • "All shall be well ; and all shall be well ; and all manner of things shall be well"@en
  • "All shall be well ; and all shall be well ; and all manner of things shall be well"
  • "Todo irá bien, todo irá bien, todo acabará saliendo bien"@es
  • "Todo irá bien, todo irá bien, todo acabará saliendo bien"
  • "All shall be well; and all shall be well; and all manner of things shall be well"@en
  • "All shall be well; and all shall be well; and all manner of things shall be well"
  • "Der amerikanische Ritter"
  • "Der amerikanische Ritter Roman"
  • "Alles komt goed en alles komt goed en alle dingen komen goed"

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