In the Land of Long Fingernails

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pp. 220, “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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ISBN 0670065552
ISBN13 9780670065554
Number of pages 220
Original Title In the Land of Long Fingernails
Published Date 2008
Book Condition Very good
Jacket Condition Very Good
Binding Hardcover
Size 8vo
Place of Publication Toronto
Edition Second
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pp. 220, “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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Weight 1 kg