Bibliograph

The road to Wellville, T. Coraghessan Boyle

Type

Label

The road to Wellville, T. Coraghessan Boyle

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The road to Wellville

Oclc number

905371613

Responsibility statement

T. Coraghessan Boyle

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Part 1. Diagnosis -- Part 2. Therapeusis -- Part. 3. Prognosis

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