In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger in the Age of Aquarius by Wilkins, Charles
In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger in the Age of Aquarius by Wilkins, Charles

In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger in the Age of Aquarius

In the summer of 1969, Charlie Wilkins was a young man in search of a job. Turned...
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In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger in the Age of Aquarius by Wilkins, Charles

In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger in the Age of Aquarius

$56.50
In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger in the Age of Aquarius by Wilkins, Charles

In the Land of Long Fingernails: A Gravedigger in the Age of Aquarius

$56.50
Author: Charles Wilkins
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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In the summer of 1969, Charlie Wilkins was a young man in search of a job. Turned down by a dozen potential employers--including Shubang Used Tire and Dick's Nifty Car Wash--Wilkins landed an unlikely job at a vast corporate cemetery as a "bone waxer," handling "bird-houses" (urns), and earning an invaluable education about life as a caregiver in death.

From reckless disinterments, to a mid-summer gravediggers' strike, to the illegal shifting of bones from untended graves, In the Land of Long Fingernails is a coming-of-age story among extraordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. It offers up a Barnum-esque cavalcade of "slay carpenters," "dirt nappers," mavericks and misfits, shifty plot salesmen, and drug-addled gravediggers, yet it also shows us their uncertainty and superstitions, and their relentless gallows humor amid the inevitable reminders of what it is, finally, to be human.

In the funny and dark spirit of Thomas Lynch's best-selling The Undertaking, Mary Roach's hit Stiff, and Six Feet Under, In the Land of Long Fingernails is a testament not just to unexpected friendship but also to late sixties culture, and to the art and power of storytelling.

Author: Charles Wilkins
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 07/01/2009
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.26h x 6.34w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9781602397095


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 05/15/2009 pg. 9
Kirkus Reviews 06/15/2009
Publisher's Weekly Annex 07/13/2009

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