The Dominion of Wyley McFadden
by Gardiner, Scott
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 067931041X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679310419
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Hardcover. New. Hardcover New Ships From Canada New in new dust jacket Sewn binding Cloth over boards 337 p Audience: General/trade Book Description An eccentric ex-fertility doctor's quest to redress geo-zoological discrimination in Canada takes an unexpected twist when he meets up with a mysterious hitchhiker After months of painstaking preparation, Wyley McFadden is finally ready to carry out an outlandish scheme In what looks remarkably like an ordinary camper van, McFadden is transporting a secret cargo--one he's been accumulating for the better part of a year--from Toronto to Alberta But just past the town of Wawa, off the eastern flank of Lake Superior, in the midst of miles and miles of aspen and conifer, he spots a girl in a tennis outfit on the side of the road Hopping from one foot to the other, bending in oddly rhythmic intervals and waving her arms, she appears to be performing some exotic dance But as McFadden gets closer, he realizes she is being eaten alive by mosquitoes and black flies,
Synopsis
Scott Gardiner's writing has appeared in several publications, including Toronto Life , Canadian Geographic , The Globe and Mail and The Toronto Star . He has worked as a deckhand on the Great Lake freighters, a wall-plasterer in Spain, a soap salesman in Germany, a fact-checker at Maclean's and an education consultant in Labrador. He lives in Toronto.
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- Bookseller
- Pine Tree Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8942109155
- Title
- The Dominion of Wyley McFadden
- Author
- Gardiner, Scott
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 067931041X
- ISBN 13
- 9780679310419
- Publisher
- Random House Canada
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- This edition first published
- 2000
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