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In the Land of Long Fingernails

by Charles Wilkins · 2008

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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-ofage of an impressionable young man.

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of this
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20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisCanadaCanadaMore like thisLess of thisTorontoTorontoMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 220 pages

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