An edition of In the land of long fingernails (2008)

In the land of long fingernails

a gravedigger's memoir

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An edition of In the land of long fingernails (2008)

In the land of long fingernails

a gravedigger's memoir

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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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Viking Canada
Language
English
Pages
220

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Subjects

Gravediggers, Biographies, Biography, Authors, Canadian (English), Fossoyeurs, Humor, general, Cemeteries

People

Charles Wilkins

Times

20th century
Edition Availability
Cover of: In the Land of Long Fingernails
In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger in the Age of Aquarius
2011, Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
in English
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Cover of: In the Land of Long Fingernails
In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger's Memoir
2011, Greystone Books Ltd., Greystone Books
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: In the Land of Long Fingernails
In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger in the Age of Aquarius
2009, Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat
Cover of: In the land of long fingernails
In the land of long fingernails: a gravedigger's memoir
2008, Viking Canada
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat

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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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Toronto, ON

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
C810 22
Library of Congress
PS8645 .IZ46 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 220 pages ;
Number of pages
220

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26643396M
Internet Archive
inlandoflongfing0000wilk
ISBN 10
0670065552
ISBN 13
9780670065554
OCLC/WorldCat
263493034

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