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A Newfoundlander in Canada / Alan Doyle.
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Title:A Newfoundlander in Canada / Alan Doyle.
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Author/Creator:Doyle, Alan, 1969- author.
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Published/Created:Toronto : Doubleday Canada, [2017]
©2017
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Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
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Call Number: ML420.D755 A3 2017
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Doyle, Alan, 1969-
Great Big Sea (Musical group)
Musicians--Newfoundland and Labrador--Biography.
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Description:ix, 244 pages ; 24 cm
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Summary:"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."-- Provided by publisher.
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Additional formats:Issued also in electronic format.
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ISBN:9780385686198 (hardcover)
0385686196 (hardcover)
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Contents:Machine generated contents note: Home
Nova Scotia
Purple Dinosaur
Prince Edward Island
Worst Seat Ever
New Brunswick
Supper
Quebec
Language
Ontario 1
Canada Day 1997
Ontario 2
Ralph on Ice
Manitoba
Fred's
Saskatchewan
Cat in the Culvert
Alberta
Fort Mac Bus
British Columbia
Home Again.