In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger's Memoir - Charles Wilkins - Books - Greystone Books,Canada - 9781553658436 - September 8, 2011
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Charles Wilkins
In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger's Memoir

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Charles Wilkins, then a university student, took a job as a gravedigger in a vast corporate cemetery in the east end of Toronto during the hazy summer of 1969. The bizarre-but-true events of that time-a midsummer gravediggers' strike, the unearthing of a victim of an unsolved murder, and a little illegal bone-shifting-play out among a Barnum-esque parade of mavericks and misfits in this macabre and hilarious memoir.

Amid relentless gallows humor and the inevitable reminders of what it is, finally, to be human, Wilkins provides an unforgettable insider's view of a morbidly fascinating industry. In the Land of Long Fingernails is a story of mortality, materialism, friendship and sexuality? and the gradual coming-of-age of an impressionable young man.

240 pages

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released September 8, 2011
ISBN13 9781553658436
Publishers Greystone Books,Canada
Pages 240
Dimensions 139 × 215 × 15 mm   ·   311 g
Language English  

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