The Road to Wellville, Paperback
Descriere
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.""
Despre autor
Thomas Coraghessan Boyle este un romancier și scriitor de nuvele american. Din mijlocul anilor 1970, a publicat treizeci și un de romane și mai mult de 150 de nuvele. A câștigat Premiul PEN/Faulkner în 1988, pentru al treilea său roman, World's End, care prezintă 300 de ani din nord-estul statului New York.
