In the Land of Long Fingernails Hardcover by Charles Wilkins

Product Details

• Publisher: Viking (2008-09-30)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 220 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780670065554
• Item Weight: 439.99 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

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.

About the Author

Writer and magazine journalist CHARLES WILKINS is the author of eleven books, including The Circus at the Edge of the Earth, which was shortlisted for the Rogers/Viacom Non-Fiction Prize, the bestselling Paddle to the Amazon, and A Wilderness Called Home: Dispatches from the Wild Heart of Canada. He lives in Thunder Bay with his wife and three children.