The Review of Contemporary Fiction, June 22nd, 1994
Set in Battle Creek, Michigan, in 1907, Boyle's Road to Wellville focuses on the plights of Will Lightbody and Charlie Ossining. Lightbody is plagued by his rebellious gut and his health-conscious wife, at whose insistence he is treated by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of the corn flake, peanut butter, caramel-cereal-coffee, and "seventy-five other gastrically correct foods." Charlie Ossining is intent on making his fortune in the burgeoning field of breakfast cereals. Charlie's fortunes rest on the success of "Per-Fo," that "predigested, peptonized and celery impregnated" cereal guarant...
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