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The Road to Wellville
T.C. Boyle
publisher: Querido, Amsterdam, 1981



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The World According to Garp
John Irving

Bleak House
Charles Dickens


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An account of: Dr John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of the cornflake and peanut butter; his profligate, degenerate and opportunistic son; and the birth of America's first health fanatics.


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BOOKS BY T.C. BOYLE:

World's End
1987
Haunted by the burden of his family' s traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine and sex, disturbed by a frightening real encounter with some family ghosts, Walter Van Brunt is about to have a collision with history. It will lead Walter to search for his father.
The Road to Wellville
1981
An account of: Dr John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of the cornflake and peanut butter; his profligate, degenerate and opportunistic son; and the birth of America's first health fanatics.
The Tortilla Curtain
1995
Until he hit the shabby Mexican pedestrian with his car, Delaney Mossbacher liked to think his liberal humanist values were as unblemished as his driving record. He did not report the accident, yet he could not get the image of the Mexican out of his mind.
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