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Book Review of The Road to Wellville

The Road to Wellville
The Road to Wellville
Author: T. C. Boyle
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 2


THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE
T.C. Boyle
Penguin Books
Fiction
ISBN: 0140167188


Will Lightbody is a man with a stomach ailment whose only sin is loving his wife, Eleanor too much. Eleanor is a health nut, and when in 1907 she journeys to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's infamous Battle Creek, Michigan spa to live out the vegetarian ethos, Will goes too. Truth and fiction are blended in this splendid novel full of wonderful characters and broad satire.