All shall be well ; and all shall be well ; and all manner of things shall be well by Wodicka, Tod, 1976- instant download

All shall be well ; and all shall be well ; and all manner of things shall be well by Wodicka, Tod, 1976- instant download

pages cm, The story of Burt Hecker, a sixty-three-year-old medieval re-enactor (he dresses in medieval clothes, eats medieval food, thinks medieval thoughts), and his doomed attempt to come to terms with his own history. It is a novel about the different ways in which we perceive the past, and how none of them can ultimately add up to the present. Using the backdrop of the nine-hundredth birthday celebrations of St Hildegard von Bingen, Burt accompanies an anchorite-re-enacting female chant workshop from upstate New York to Rhineland, Germany, only to leave them behind and set off on a modern-day Arthurian quest to 'rescue' his estranged son, Tristan, from Prague. Jumping between times, continents and histories both real and re-enacted, we get to the desperate heart of Burt Hecker, widower and mead-addict, as his losses and crimes accumulate, Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 2007