A NEWFOUNDLANDER IN CANADA: ALWAYS GOING SOMEWHERE, ALWAYS COMING HOME **SIGNED FIRST EDITION**

DOYLE, ALAN

ISBN 10: 0385686196 / ISBN 13: 9780385686198

Published by Doubleday Canada, Toronto, 2017

About this Item

pp: 244. The book is a collection of stories, impressions, and misconceptions accumulated by Doyle while travelling around the country with the band Great Big Sea. This copy has been signed by Doyle on the title page. As part of the book is a CD 'A Week At The Warehouse'. The holder of the CD has also been signed by Doyle. Both book and CD are in fine, unread, unused condition.

Seller Inventory # 008407

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A NEWFOUNDLANDER IN CANADA: ALWAYS GOING SOMEWHERE, ALWAYS COMING HOME **SIGNED FIRST EDITION**
• Publisher: Doubleday Canada, Toronto
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0385686196
• ISBN 13: 9780385686198
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Weight: 0.51 kilograms
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • THE ARTS
  • ATLANTIC CANADA
  • BIOGRAPHIES

About this title

Synopsis

Following the fantastic success of his bestselling memoir, Where I Belong, Great Big Sea front man Alan Doyle returns with a hilarious, heartwarming account of leaving Newfoundland and discovering Canada for the first time.

Armed with the same personable, candid style found in his first book, Alan Doyle turns his perspective outward from Petty Harbour toward mainland Canada, reflecting on what it was like to venture away from the comforts of home and the familiarity of the island.
     Often in a van, sometimes in a bus, occasionally in a car with broken wipers "using Bob's belt and a rope found by Paddy's Pond" to pull them back and forth, Alan and his bandmates charted new territory, and he constantly measured what he saw of the vast country against what his forefathers once called the Daemon Canada. In a period punctuated by triumphant leaps forward for the band, deflating steps backward and everything in between—opening for Barney the Dinosaur at an outdoor music festival, being propositioned at a gas station mail-order bride service in Alberta, drinking moonshine with an elderly church-goer on a Sunday morning in PEI—Alan's few established notions about Canada were often debunked and his own identity as a Newfoundlander was constantly challenged. Touring the country, he also discovered how others view Newfoundlanders and how skewed these images can sometimes be. Asked to play in front of the Queen at a massive Canada Day festival on Parliament Hill, the concert organizers assured Alan and his bandmates that the best way to showcase Newfoundland culture was for them to be towed onto stage in a dory and introduced not as Newfoundlanders but as "Newfies." The boys were not amused.
     Heartfelt, funny and always insightful, these stories tap into the complexities of community and Canadianness, forming the portrait of a young man from a tiny fishing village trying to define and hold on to his sense of home while navigating a vast and diverse and wonder-filled country.

About the Author

ALAN DOYLE is a Canadian musician, actor and writer. His albums as a solo artist and as front man for the Newfoundland Celtic-rock band Great Big Sea have sold over a million copies, and he has starred in such features as Ridley Scott's Robin Hood and CBC's Republic of Doyle. His first book, Where I Belong, published in 2014, was a national bestseller. Alan lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.