In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger's Memoir

by Charles Wilkins

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During the hazy summer of 1969, Charles Wilkins, then a student at the University of Toronto, took a job as a gravedigger. The bizarre-but-true events of that time, including a midsummer gravediggers’ strike, the unearthing of a victim of an unsolved murder, and a little illegal boneshifting, play out amongst a Barnumesque parade of mavericks and misfits in this macabre and hilarious memoir of mortality, materialism, and the gradual coming-ofage of an impressionable young man.
  • ISBN10 1553658752
  • ISBN13 9781553658757
  • Publish Date 15 April 2011 (first published 30 September 2008)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint Greystone Books
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 240
  • Language English