In the land of long fingernails

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.

subjects: Gravediggers,  Biographies,  Biography,  Authors, Canadian (English),  Fossoyeurs,  Humor, general,  Cemeteries

People: Charles Wilkins

Times: 20th century