All Together Now All Together Now

All Together Now

A Newfoundlander's Light Tales for Heavy Times

    • 4.4 • 36 Ratings
    • $12.99

Publisher Description

National Bestseller

One of Newfoundland's funniest and most beloved storytellers offers his cure for the Covid blues.


Is there a more sociable province than Newfoundland and Labrador? Or anywhere in Canada with a greater reputation for coming to the rescue of those in need?

At this time of Covid, singer, songwriter and bestselling author Alan Doyle is feeling everyone's pain. Off the road and spending more days at home than he has since he was a child hawking cod tongues on the wharfs of Petty Harbour, he misses the crowds and companionship of performing across the country and beyond. But most of all he misses the cheery clamour of pubs in his hometown, where one yarn follows another so quickly "you have to be as ready as an Olympian at the start line to get your tale in before someone is well into theirs already." We're all experiencing our own version of that deprivation, and Alan, one of Newfoundland's finest storytellers, wants to offer a little balm.

All Together Now is a gathering in book form--a virtual Newfoundland pub. There are adventures in foreign lands, including an apparently filthy singalong in Polish (well, he would have sung along if he'd understood the language), a real-life ghost story involving an elderly neighbour, a red convertible and a clown horn, a potted history of his social drinking, and heartwarming reminiscences from another past world, childhood--all designed to put a smile on the faces of the isolated-addled.

Alan Doyle has never been in better form--nor more welcome. As he says about this troubling time: "We get through it. We do what has to be done. Then, we celebrate. With the best of them."

GENRE
Humour
RELEASED
2020
November 24
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
200
Pages
PUBLISHER
Doubleday Canada
SELLER
Penguin Random House Canada
SIZE
5
MB

Customer Reviews

MartinaTucker ,

All Together Now

This is a warm and fun book. Alan Doyle’s voice is companionable and inviting and the overall impression is that you’re sitting with him listening to him spin a few yarns (that means telling stories for those of you unfamiliar with the phrase.)

Reading this book takes away the isolation COVID has imposed on us. It says “Come in, sit down, there’s lots of time so join the crowd at the table here.” It’s a helping of friendliness and stories and we all need that, COVID or no COVID.

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