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  Boyle T. Coraghessan : Road to Wellville & Untitled Stories: Road to Wellville & Untitled Stories (Contemporary American fiction) (Paperback) By (author) T Coraghessan Boyle

  

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  Short Description for Boyle T. Coraghessan : Road to Wellville & Untitled StoriesNow available in paperback, laced with wicked comic wit, this is the story of Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's infamous spa. This comic masterpiece was called "a marvel, enjoyable from beginning to end" by Jane Smiley in The New York Times Book Review. Boyle's most recent novel, East is East was a national bestseller.
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  • Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Published: 07 December 2001
  • Format: Paperback 496 pages
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  • Categories: Contemporary Fiction
  • ISBN 13: 9780140167184 ISBN 10: 0140167188
  • Sales rank: 310,340

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Full description for Boyle T. Coraghessan : Road to Wellville & Untitled Stories

• Will Lightboy 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."