TY  - BOOK
AU  - Boyle,T.Coraghessan
TI  - The road to Wellville
SN  - 0670843342 (hc.)
AV  - PS3552.O932 R63 1992
U1  - 813/.54 20
PY  - 1994///, c1993
CY  - New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Kellogg, John Harvey,
KW  - Health resorts
KW  - Michigan
KW  - Battle Creek
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Battle Creek (Mich.)
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Humorous fiction
N1  - Diagnosis: Of steak and sun -- Scavengers of the sea -- Sears' White Star liquor cure -- Father to all, father to none -- Civilized bowel -- Biggest little city in the U.S.A. -- Symptomitis -- Changing the flora -- Per-fo -- Thankful bird -- Therapeusis: 'Tis the season -- Baser appetites -- Cold in the middle -- Advertising game -- Kellogg's Kirk -- From humble beginnings -- Organized rest without ennui -- Groundhog day -- Prognosis: Questions, questions, questions -- Letter and the note -- Freikorper Kultur -- Rigid control and other matters -- Per-fo factory -- Sword of fire -- Goguac lake -- Fatal luncheon -- Fireworks -- Decoration Day
N2  - 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
UR  - http://www.archive.org/details/roadtowellville00boylrich
UR  - http://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL22364189M
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