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020			_a0140167188 (pbk.)
020			_a9780140167184 (pbk.)
035			_a(OCoLC)31051528
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050	0	0	_aPS3552.O932 _bR63 1992
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100	1		_aBoyle, T. Coraghessan.
245	1	4	_aThe road to Wellville / _h[electronic resource] _cT. Coraghessan Boyle.
260			_aNew York : _bPenguin Books, _c1994, c1993.
300			_axii, 476 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm.
440		0	_aContemporary American fiction
505	0		_aDiagnosis: 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.
520			_aWill 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.
650		0	_aHealth resorts _zMichigan _zBattle Creek _vFiction.
600	1	0	_aKellogg, John Harvey, _d1852-1943 _vFiction.
651		0	_aBattle Creek (Mich.) _vFiction.
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2gsafd
655		7	_aHumorous fiction. _2gsafd
856	4	1	_uhttp://www.archive.org/details/roadtowellville00boylrich _zFree eBook from the Internet Archive
856	4	2	_uhttp://www.openlibrary.org/books/OL22364189M _zAdditional information and access via Open Library
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