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In his fifth novel (East is East, 1990, etc.), one of America's most exuberant satirists takes on the national obsession with health and nutritional fads. It's a perfect fit. Battle Creek, Michigan, 1907, breakfast-food capital of the US. C.W. Post (Grape-Nuts) and the Kellogg brothers have already made their fortunes, but there's still a gold rush atmosphere in town. The inventor of the corn flake, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, a preening martinet, now devotes himself to his Sanitarium (``luxury hotel, hospital and spa all rolled into one''), where he denounces meat-eating, enforces a five-enema-a-day regimen, and keeps his wealthy patients busy with such wacky treatments as the sinusoidal bath. Two of those patients are Will and Eleanor Lightbody of Peterskill, New York. While Eleanor talks up the San with fanatical zeal, the skeptical Will, struggling miserably with the cardboard food and fatuous pieties of his fellow-diners, is as lonely as Winston Smith in 1984. Another New York arrival, engaging young hustler Charlie Ossining, is in town to start his own breakfast- food company with partner Bender. What follows is a weave of satire and melodrama and three storylines: the lurid struggle-to-the-death between the Doctor and his outcast son George (the only one of 42 adopted kids to invalidate Kellogg's child-rearing principles); the equally melodramatic vicissitudes of Charlie; and the Lightbodys' marital drama, which climaxes when Will regains his sense of self and rescues Eleanor from the womb-manipulator Spitzvogel. Any raggedness is more than compensated for by Boyle's Dickensian eye for the grotesque and his formidable narrative power; most fittingly, for a book about the body, Boyle is one of those gloriously physical writers who can describe a simple walk on a cold night in a way that makes your blood tingle. Big, smart, exciting, and often wildly funny. (First printing of 100,000; first serial to Rolling Stone; film rights to Alan Parker) -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Focusing on the "Biggest Little City in the U.S.A.," Boyle provides a delightfully comic anatomy of a society obsessed with miraculous cures and spectacular successes. In 1907, Battle Creek, Michigan, is a magnet for rich seekers of health and robust seekers of wealth. The former flock to John Harvey Kellogg's health spa, where the regimen requires a change in the intestinal flora via five enemas per day. The latter attempt to con their way into the booming breakfast food business. Rich with historical and imaginative details, the novel includes a romantic love story and a fierce battle between a determined father (Kellogg) and an evil son (the only one of 42 adoptive children who defies the great healer's efforts at reform). In this inventive and highly entertaining story, Boyle's proven talents are again displayed in rare form. Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 1/93.
- Albert Wilhelm, Tennessee Technological Univ., Cookville
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Dickension - If Dickens Had A Wicked Streak 22. Dezember 1999

Von Christopher Weaver

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I don't know if this is Boyle's best novel, but it's the one I've enjoyed the most. I think the reviewer who called it Dickension is right--and I think that Boyle has consciously immitated Dickens' style in his historical fiction. The sprawling plot, the larger-than-life characters--all remind me of Dickens. But what Boyle does with this material is certainly un-Dickension. No, smarmy melodramas wrapped up with felicitous coincidences here! Actually, Boyle reminds me a bit of John Irving--also a conscious immitator of Dickens. If you like John Irving's novels and you don't mind a bit of wickedness--well, more than a bit, really, then you might like THE ROAD TO WELLVILLE.

This may also be Boyle's most readable novel. Although his style is engaging in all of the stuff I've read by him, this novel probably requires the least of his readers--I loved WATER MUSIC as well, but some my find that one a bit more perplexing.

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Hated the movie? The book more than makes up for it!! 29. Januar 1999

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I first picked up this book because I was living in Santa Barbara and Boyle was featured in one of the local newspapers as a local artist. I wasn't sure what to expect since I never heard of him before but did know the movie that was based on this book was supposed to horrible. But I read it anyway and was very glad I did..The story about a fanatical health/cereal magnate and his crackpot followers was great. The characters were built up perfectly and the descriptions of the settings were vivid enough to make you imagine you were a witness to all the doings of Kellogg and the Lightbodys. It's rare that I read a book and wonder about what happens to the characters after the book ends but I did here. I then made the mistake of watching the movie. It was interesting to see the book come to life but that's as far as the entertainment went. Like most really good books, this one has too many subtleties of plot and humor to easily be translated into a movie. So, if you have a few days to spare, do yourself a favor and pick up The Road to Wellville. It'll pick up your spirits even better than a yogurt enema could ever hope to...

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Schöne neue Biowelt 7. November 2004

Von Svenja Luebber

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Wer satirisches mag, kommt an den Büchern von T. C. Boyle einfach nicht vorbei, und mit „The road to Wellville" veröffentlichte er ein ganz besonderes Highlight. Wellville ist der Name eines „Gesundheitskomplexes", dem Sanatorium des Dr. Kellogg, dem Erfinder der gleichnamigen Frühstücksflocken. Die Handlung spielt zu Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wellville ist der Inbegriff der Schönheit und des Glücks, und damit es in Wellville immer ein bisschen „weller" ist als anderswo, wird auch schon mal über Leichen gegangen. Dr. Kellog wird größenwahnsinnig, verliert jeden Bezug zur Realität und betrachtet seinen trinkenden Sohn als fehlgeschlagenes Experiment, und Mr. Lightbody rettet mit einem Mord seine Ehe. Es ist eben alles schön in Wellville. Schon die Namen sind eindrucksvoll. Wellville, Lightbody, das spricht alles für sich. Gelesen wird das Hörbuch vom Autor selbst, was es außerdem zu einem Hörerlebnis macht. Unbedingt empfehlenswert!!!

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