T. C. BOYLE | The Road to Wellville

Will Lightbody is a man with a stomach ailment whose only sin is loving his wife, Eleanor, too much. Eleanor is a health nut of the first stripe, and when in 1907 she journeys to Dr. John Harvey Kellogg's infamous Battle Creek Spa to live out the vegetarian ethos, poor Will goes too.

So begins T. Coraghessan Boyle's wickedly comic look at turn-of-the-century fanatics in search of the magic pill to prolong their lives—or the profit to be had from manufacturing it. Brimming with a Dickensian cast of characters and laced with wildly wonderful plot twists, Jane Smiley in the New York Times Book Review called The Road to Wellville "A marvel, enjoyable from beginning to end."

T.C.Boyle Nació en Peekskill, Nueva York, en 1948. En 1999 recibió el premio Pen/Malamud por su volumen de relatos "T. C. Boyle Stories". Entre sus novelas cabe destacar "Música acuática" (1981), "El fin del mundo" (1987), "El balneario de Battle Creek" (1993), "The Tortilla Curtain"> (1997), Prix Médicis Étranger, y "Las mujeres" (2009), que narra la vida del arquitecto Frank Lloyd Wright, así como, "Los Terranautas" (2016) y "Una libertad luminosa" (2019), próximamente en Impedimenta.