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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.
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Characters/People edit
- Charlie Ossining: Add a description of this character.
- Will Lightbody
- George
- Mr. Bender
- Eleanor Lightbody
- Mrs. Hookstratten
- Farrington
- John Harvey Kellogg
- Miss Muntz
- Mrs. Tindermarsh
- Irene
- Frank Linniman
- Mrs. Eyvindsdottir
- Bloethal
- Homer Praetz
- Badger
- Lionel
- Bookbinder
- Ernest O'reilly
- Mrs. Stover
- Bloese
- Charles
- Lillian
- Ralph
- Delahoussaye
- Murphy
- Dr. Spitzvogel
- Graves
- Hannah Martin
- Alfred
- Doctor
- Graham
- Hart-jones
- Dick
- Gunderson
- Peterskill
First Sentence edit
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of the corn flake and peanut butter, not to mention caramel-cereal coffee, Bromose, Nuttolene and some seventy-five other gastrically correct foods, paused to level his gaze on the heavyset woman in the front row.
Table of Contents edit
PART I: DIAGNOSIS
1. Of Steak and Sin
2. Scavengers of the Sea
3. Sears' White Star Liquor Cure
4. Father to All, Father to None
5. The Civilized Bowel
6. The Biggest Little City in the U.S.A
7. Symptomitis
8. Changing the Flora
9. Per-Fo
10. A Thankful Bird
PART II: THERAPEUSIS
1. 'Tis the Season
2. The Baser Appetites
3. Cold in the Middle
4. The Advertising Game
5. Kellogg's Kink
6. From Humble Beginnings
7. Organized Rest Without Ennui
8. Groundhog Day
PART III: PROGNOSIS
1. Question, Questions, Questions
2. The Letter and the Note
3. Freikorper Kultur
4. Rigid Control and Other Matters
5. The Per-Fo Factory
6. A Sword of Fire
7. Goguac Lake
8. The Fatal Luncheon
9. Fireworks
10. Decoration Day
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Authors & Contributors edit
- T. Coraghessan Boyle (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: German
Publisher: Hanser
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: 3446174354
Page Count: 549
Publisher: Hanser
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1993
ISBN: 3446174354
Page Count: 549
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- Dewey: 813.54
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