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In the Land of Long Fingernails

by Charles Wilkins
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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.
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Publisher: Greystone Books

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  • Release date: April 15, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9781553658757
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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.
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Biography & Autobiography Sociology Nonfiction
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    Publisher:
    Greystone Books

    Kindle Book
    Release date: April 15, 2011

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781553658757
    Release date: April 15, 2011

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781553658757
    File size: 486 KB
    Release date: April 15, 2011

    PDF ebook
    ISBN: 9781553658757
    File size: 5395 KB
    Release date: April 15, 2011

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