An edition of In the land of long fingernails
(2008)
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-of age of an impressionable young man.
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Gravediggers, Biographies, Biography, Authors, Canadian (English), Fossoyeurs, Humor, general, CemeteriesPeople
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20th centuryShowing 4 featured editions. View all 4 editions?
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In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger's Memoir
2011, Greystone Books Ltd., Greystone Books
in English
1553658434 9781553658436
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In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger in the Age of Aquarius
2011, Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
in English
1102795224 9781102795223
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In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger in the Age of Aquarius
2009, Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
in English
1626369887 9781626369887
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In the land of long fingernails: a gravedigger's memoir
2008, Viking Canada
in English
0670065552 9780670065554
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Table of Contents
A half-assed shot at redemption
The luxuriating harmony of the peaceable kingdom
The unassailable code of cemetery conduct
A young man of spiritual inclinations
The practice of inefficiency
The profitable phase of death
Death's little acre
No time to croak
The pace of microbes and worms
A loner and a rose gardener
The remains of the day
The business of being alive
The imperfect possibilities of the venal new world
The land of low expectations
No more bullshit.
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