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Suddenly They Heard Footsteps
Storytelling for the Twenty-First Century Dan Yashinsky Knopf Canada CANADIAN STORYTELLER Dan Yashinsky lives his life as teller and listener and shows how storytelling can and does create vital connections between individuals, communities and families. In an age of instant messaging, entertainment systems and digital interaction, why is it that more and more people are being drawn to the art of oral storytelling? As Dan Yashinsky, one of Canada's best known and most beloved storytellers shows, an old tradition has become the new avant-garde. Storytelling is still very much alive in this digital age: it connects us to each other, to our communities and to our past. In fact, people are as hungry as they've ever been for the wisdom and solace of told stories. But they are also looking for stories that will speak to our post-modern, fractured, apocalyptic age. Suddenly They Heard Footsteps is part memoir, part instruction, and part cultural history, and includes tales that Dan has told to wide acclaim. By turns humorous, inspiring, instructive and philosophical, Dan shows us that, like love, stories mean the most the very moment we give them away. Suddenly They Heard Footsteps — Storytelling for the Twenty-First Century received the 2007 Anne Izard Storytellers’ Choice Award. It is published in English Canada by Vintage Canada (www.randomhouse.ca), in the U.S. by University Press of Mississippi (www.upress.state.ms.us), and in a French edition titled Soudain, on entendit des pas, by Planète rebelle (www.planeterebelle.qc.ca). Purchase a copy now: in English [Canadian or American edition] or in French. |
The following books may be obtained directly through The Tellery:
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Tales for an Unknown City
(McGill-Queen's University Press)
"This is a magnificent book, greatly
enriched by Yashinsky's beautiful and evocative writing... I loved this book
and was moved by it." — Michele Landsberg, Toronto Star columnist |
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Next Teller — A Book of Canadian Storytelling ISBN 0-921556-46-2 "A great new collection of stories ... reflects the richness and diversity of Canada and of its storytellers." — Quill and Quire |
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Ghostwise — A Book of Midnight Stories
ISBN 0-921556-66-7 "This deliciously creepy collection... is going to be a boon to those kids who come in looking for more sophisticated scary stuff; ... eminently useful to readers aloud and storytellers looking for unusual material." — Bulletin of the Center for |
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At The Edge — A Book of Risky Stories ISBN 0-921556-74-8 "So welcome to the circle. Please make yourself at home; get comfy. We storytellers aren't fancy folks. Kick your shoes off. Storytelling is a simple art (that's simple, not easy): no special effects, no digitally enhanced imagery; just voice and memory and a community of listeners. And stories, of course. Unforgettable stories." — from the Introduction. |