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Title	:	Ragged Company
Author	:	Richard Wagamese
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 376 pages
Published	:	August 12th 2008 by Doubleday Canada
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Canada. Book Club

Ragged Company Hardcover | Pages: 376 pages

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Four chronically homeless people–Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger–seek refuge in a warm movie theatre when a severe Arctic Front descends on the city. During what is supposed to be a one-time event, this temporary refuge transfixes them. They fall in love with this new world, and once the weather clears, continue their trips to the cinema. On one of these outings they meet Granite, a jaded and lonely journalist who has turned his back on writing “the same story over and over again” in favour of the escapist qualities of film, and an unlikely friendship is struck.

A found cigarette package (contents: some unsmoked cigarettes, three $20 bills, and a lottery ticket) changes the fortune of this struggling set. The ragged company discovers they have won $13.5 million, but none of them can claim the money for lack proper identification. Enlisting the help of Granite, their lives, and fortunes, become forever changed.

Ragged Company is a journey into both the future and the past. Richard Wagamese deftly explores the nature of the comforts these friends find in their ideas of “home,” as he reconnects them to their histories.

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Original Title:	Ragged Company
ISBN:	0385661568 (ISBN13: 9780385661560)
Edition Language:	English

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My one big problem with this book is that they only give me five stars to rate it. I consider it a seven. Double Dick, Digger, Timber and especially One For The Dead are going to live inside me for a very long time. Even Granite found a way to touch me. Rarely a book comes along that is the right book for the right time. It engages the mind, it touches the heart. It wrenches the gut. Absolutely powerfull.

Rocked my world... First introduced to Richard as keynote speaker at the Sechelt Readers and Writers fair. Through spirit, humour, storytelling, wisdom, and even drumming, Richard had 500 people in tears as they bonded with his message of community,spirit, life, history, and Canada. I then met him at a coffee shop in my hometown and we have since become friends. He is making a difference in this world. Ragged Company was jaw dropping for both the storyline and the literary genius. I wondered how

Second ReadingJust as magical and moving a read the second time around. Richard Wagamese is an amazing author and story teller. Ragged Company is an incredible story about what it means to be human (to be real and vulnerable connecting with other humans and the earth.) It is also a wonderful illustration of how to love others unconditionally for who they are and to "really" see them in all their perfection. I was moved to tears frequently. Wagamese also weaves a great deal of indigenous

This book Ragged Company is TRULY ONE OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITE FICTION BOOKS. I found every page delicious. As someone who has written short stories about homeless characters, who worked helping homeless and street people in Toronto for many years, and as a fiction writer in general, I just found this book so true, entertaining in a most respectful way and I wanted to shout it from the building (and tree) tops....READ THIS BOOK! Wonderfully written. Bravo Richard, for finding such an authentic

Terrible book, one dimensional characters, and a saint of a middle class white man, how unoriginal! The homeless alcoholics speak and are spoken to like children throughout, but I'm pretty sure alcoholism and depression don't make a person child like. It's demeaning. If you want to feel "worldly" because you read a book from the point of view of a homeless person, go for it, but if you'd rather a realistic human perspective, don't read this, you'll be disappointed.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. While I did find some of the language very rough and somewhat abrasive, the impact lessened as I became absorbed into the characters and their stories. The author really makes you reflect on life and ones values and beliefs. I was particularly struck by the concept of "home", as well as the concept that time does not really exist. All there is is the here and now, our memories are what makes time exist. I would highly recommend this book.

So a retired journalist walks in to a theatre during the longest cold snap of the winter to enjoy an afternoon matinee movie. The theatre is empty, which he does not mind in the least as he is accustomed to watching movies alone. But then four homeless people seeking shelter from the cold, enter the theatre and choose his row from all of the empty rows. Concealed beneath their ragged clothes are the bottles that bring warmth to their bellies. The indigenous woman in the group sits right beside