The Road To Wellville by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Set in early 20th-century Battle Creek, this satirical tale follows patients and profiteers orbiting a zealous health guru’s sanitarium, where extreme regimens of vegetarianism, enemas, and abstinence promise salvation. A hapless husband endures humiliating cures while his wife embraces the movement, a grifter schemes to cash in on the breakfast-cereal boom, and the guru’s troubled household reveals cracks in his crusade. As fads, fortunes, and bodies are put through their paces, the story skewers wellness mania and the thin line between reform and fanaticism.
The 14093rd greatest book of all time
- Published
- 1993
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Moderate
- Pages
- 480-520
- Original Language
- English
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