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The Dominion of Wyley McFadden, Scott Gardiner's funny and ambitious debut, is a road novel driven by the sort of garrulous, obsessive voice that propels the novels of tragicomic masters like Stanley Elkin, Robert Kroetsch, and Charles Portis. McFadden rants (he's a fed-up federalist), he digresses (he knows more than you want to about, say, the Game and Fish Act), he self-justifies (he had perfectly good reasons for doing the things that got him barred from the practice of medicine), all with a charming mix of the fastidious and the impulsive. His hitchhiking passenger, knowing her quarry, fends off his questions about her past (and her name) by slowly drawing his story out as they drive west. It's not an entirely smooth ride (some of Wyley's longer lectures test a reader's patience, and toward the novel's end Gardiner attempts to burden Wyley's story with a moral weight it can't bear, and doesn't really deserve), but it's an enjoyable, rambling treat. --Tom Nissley
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