Books
May, 1993
The Road to Wellville (Viking) is a comic tour de force by T. Coraghessan Boyle that establishes him at the top of his literary game. In his fifth novel, Boyle takes us back to 1907--1908 to explore John Harvey Kellogg's world-famous Battle Creek Sanitarium--"bastion of right thinking, vegetarianism and self-improvement, citadel of temperance and dress reform and, not coincidentally, the single healthiest spot on the planet." As an offshoot of his health spa, Kellogg also became "...