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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 272 pages
Edition: REPRINT
Publisher: Viking Penguin
ISBN: 0140233687
Release Date: Jan 4, 2001
| |  | | | In Brief
Near the turn of the century, Battle Creek, Michigan, was "the headquarters of J.H. Kellogg and C.W. Post, the rival magnates of cornflakes and Grape-Nuts. . . . {The novel provides a} portrait of Battle Creek from three perspectives. The first . . . is that of Dr. Kellogg himself, . . . {head} of a sanitarium where the rich and powerful go to be cured of physical and spiritual 'autointoxication' brought about by meat eating and sexual activity. . . . Thesecond is that of Will Lightbody, a patient at the clinic. . . . The third viewpoint is that of Charlie Ossining, a shady businessman." (Booklist)
| | | | From The Publisher
The year is 1907, and the boom town of Battle Creek, Michigan, is attracting a formidable array of visitors - the rich, the preposterously rich, and the merely famous, from California, Chicago, New York, and even Europe. What draws them to this place? And what inspires them to trade in their steaks and oysters, their martinis and champagne, for a diet of bran and yogurt and a regimen of five enemas per day? Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, of course, inventor of the corn flake, peanut butter, and the coffee substitutes that have ruined so many a bright morning, the man whose dietary wisdom is at your disposal in this comic masterpiece by T. Coraghessan Boyle. The Road to Wellville overflows with a Dickensian cast of characters - all in search of the magic pill to prolong their lives, or the profit to be had from manufacturing it. The hapless hero of this pursuit is Will Lightbody, a man with an undiagnosed stomach ailment whose only sin is loving his wife too much. For Eleanor Lightbody, despite her upper-crust credentials, her capability and beauty, is a health nut of the first stripe, and when she travels to Dr. Kellogg's "Temple of Health" to live out the vegetarian ethos with a vengeance, so too does poor Will. Boyle's amazing novel offers much more than a cure for pernicious maladies - it will make you howl with delighted recognition as you discover the root and basis for the catechism of today's food police. It will also give you a look at the boom industry that made the little burg of Battle Creek known around the world, and introduce you to the hustlers and confidence men who came to town to profit from the public's credulity. And it will give you adventure along with a good dollop of comic instruction in the mysteries of the prescriptive diet and the evils of sex (Dr. Kellogg believed in abstaining - for life).
| | | | Annotation
Louie Anderson, celebrated comedian and author of the bestselling Dear Dad, returns with an inspiring, insightfully funny exploration of his relationship with his mother and of his physical and psychological battle to overcome his addiction to food. Satellite TV tour.
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Psychology, Biography / Autobiography, Social Scientists & Psychologists, Fiction, Michigan, Health resorts, Battle Creek, Battle Creek (Mich )
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