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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ISBN
9781553658757
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
Greystone Books
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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