In the land of long fingernails
a gravedigger's memoir
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Word Count
55,000 words, Guess
Page Count
220 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL26643396M
- ISBN-139780670065554
- ISBN-100670065552
- OCLC Control Number263493034
- OCLC Control Numberinlandoflongfing0000wilk
Classifications
- DDCC810 22
- LCCPS8645 .IZ46 2008
Description
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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