The Road to Wellville

Literary Fiction

Author: T. Coraghessan Boyle

A snobbish wife and her henpecked husband travel to Dr. Kellogg’s spa in turn-of-the-century Battle Creek, where the youth-crazed affluent succumb to quackery. By the author of East is East. Reprint. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo…..Read More

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