Ragged Company
Written by Richard Wagamese
Narrated by J.D. Nicholsen, Wesley French, Monique Mojica and Benjamin Blais
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this audiobook
Four chronically homeless people — Amelia One Sky, Timber, Double Dick and Digger — seek refuge in a warm movie theater 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 favor 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.
Richard Wagamese
Richard Wagamese, an Ojibway from the Wabaseemoong First Nation in northwestern Ontario, was one of Canada's foremost writers. His acclaimed, bestselling novels included Indian Horse, which was a Canada Reads finalist, winner of the inaugural Burt Award for First Nations, Métis and Inuit Literature, and made into a feature film; and Medicine Walk. He was also the author of acclaimed memoirs, including For Joshua; One Native Life; and One Story, One Song, which won the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature; as well as a collection of personal reflections, Embers, which received the Bill Duthie Booksellers' Choice Award. He won numerous awards and recognition for his writing, including the National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Media and Communications, the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize, the Canada Reads People's Choice Award, and the Writers' Trust of Canada's Matt Cohen Award. Wagamese died on March 10, 2017, in Kamloops, BC.
More audiobooks from Richard Wagamese
Medicine Walk Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Dream Wheels Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Runaway Dreams Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Him Standing Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Related to Ragged Company
Related audiobooks
No Return Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe World of Atlas Shrugged: The Essential Companion to Ayn Rand's Masterpiece Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Police Your Planet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Somewhere in Crime: A Mackinac Island Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChildren's Favorites - Volume III Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTrump's Island: A Gilligan's Island Parody for Adults Only Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsI Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing: Star Wars and the Triumph of Geek Culture Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Enemy Within Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Apollo Deception Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCatch A Falling Star Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The MacTaggart Brothers Trilogy: Hot Scots, Books 1-3 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tin Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Renascent World Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDoctor Who: The Magician's Oath: The Companion Chronicles Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bloody Backwater Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOnce a Bitcoin Miner: Scandal and Turmoil in the Cryptocurrency Wild West Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Moving Jack Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Film Mystery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIce Angel: An Alex Turner Thriller Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wah-Wah Diaries: The Making of a Film Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Murder Most Wild Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Whalefall: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Native American & Aboriginal Fiction For You
The Berry Pickers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Black Sun Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Clown Brigade Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Don't Fear the Reaper Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Heart Is a Chainsaw Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Council of Dolls: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Night Watchman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pigs in Heaven: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Five Little Indians: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Crow Mary: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tread of Angels Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sentence Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stealing: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shutter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Fevered Star Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Babysitter Lives Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Savage Conversations Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5VenCo: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5White Horse: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pigs in Heaven Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Swim Home to the Vanished: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Empire of Wild: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Seed Keeper: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Better the Blood Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Removed: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Winter Counts: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Skeleton Man: A Leaphorn and Chee Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Round House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Hell and Back Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Way of the Bear: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Reviews for Ragged Company
0 ratings0 reviews