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In the Land of Long Fingernails : a Gravedigger's Memoir by Wilkins, Charles (Charles Everett) is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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. 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. Charles Wilkins.

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Author

Wilkins, Charles (Charles Everett)

Publisher

Penguin Group (Canada)

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780670065554

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir

Rating

3.5 / 5 (107 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14