The Road to Wellville
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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.”
T. C. Boyle is the author of eleven novels, including World’s End (winner of the PEN/FaulknerAward), Drop City (a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award), and The Inner Circle. His most recent story collections are Tooth and Claw and The Human Fly and Other Stories.
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| Dimensions | 1.0600 × 5.1300 × 7.6700 in |
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| Subjects | book club recommendations, world war 2, book club, Scotland, historical fiction, UK, family life, literary fiction, magical realism, FIC016000, books for women, saga, contemporary fiction, WWI, historical novel, family saga, classic literature, historical novels, historical fiction books, adventure books, marriage books, british fiction, death, Literature, women, historical, war, magic, marriage, family, romance, drama, Friendship, romance books, contemporary, coming of age, literary, lgbt, FIC014000, WWII, WW2, 20th century, 21st century, 1950s, 1960s |
