The Road to Wellville by T Boyle

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The Road to Wellville by T Boyle

Will Lightbody is a man with a stomach ailment whose only sin is loving his wife, Eleanor, too much. Eleanor is a health nut of the first stripe, and when in 1907 she journeys to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's infamous Battle Creek Spa to live out the vegetarian ethos, poor Will goes too.

So begins T. Coraghessan Boyle's wickedly comic look at turn-of-the-century fanatics in search of the magic pill to prolong their lives--or the profit to be had from manufacturing it. Brimming with a Dickensian cast of characters and laced with wildly wonderful plot twists, Jane Smiley in the New York Times Book Review called The Road to Wellville A marvel, enjoyable from beginning to end.

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ISBN 13 9780670843343
ISBN 10 0670843342
Title The Road to Wellville
Author T Boyle
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 1993-05-27
Number of pages 496
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.