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Ragged Company

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ISBN-10: 0385256949

ISBN-13: 9780385256940

Edition: N/A

Authors: Richard Wagamese

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Description:

Four chronically homeless peopleAmelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Diggerseek 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, three20 bills, and a lottery ticket) changes the…    
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Book details

List price: $18.95
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/6/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Richard Wagamese is an Ojibway from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in northwestern Ontario. He is the author of four novels, including the award-winning Dream Wheels . His autobiographical book For Joshua was published to critical acclaim, and One Native Life was selected as one of the Globe & Mail 's Top 100 Books of the Year. He lives outside Kamloops, British Columbia.