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In the Land of Long Fingernails : A Gravedigger in the Age of Aquarius by Charles Wilkins (2009, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSkyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN-101602397090
ISBN-139781602397095
eBay Product ID (ePID)71658932
Product Key Features
Book TitleIn the Land of Long Fingernails : a Gravedigger in the Age of Aquarius
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2009
TopicPersonal Memoirs, General, Literary, Customs & Traditions, Form / Essays
GenreSocial Science, Biography & Autobiography, Humor, History
AuthorCharles Wilkins
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height6.4 in
Item Weight17.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2008-046637
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsWilkins's memoir serves as a fascinating account of his coming-of-age experience as a gravedigger in the summer of 1969. Confronted daily with mortality and the physical and emotional implications of death, Wilkins explores the grim details of working in a cemetery and how the experience ultimately shaped his journey to adulthood.
Dewey Decimal393/.1092
SynopsisIn 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., A darkly comic memoir of Charlie Wilkins's year as a twenty-year-old student-grave digger in the swinging..., In the summer of 1969, Charlie Wilkins was a young man in search ofa job. Turned down by a dozen potential employers--including ShubangUsed Tire and Dick's Nifty Car Wash--Wilkins landed an unlikely job at avast corporate cemetery as a "bone waxer," handling "bird-houses"(urns), and earning an invaluable education about life as a caregiverin death. From reckless disinterments, to a mid-summergravediggers' strike, to the illegal shifting of bones from untendedgraves, In the Land of Long Fingernails is a coming-of-age story amongextraordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. It offers up aBarnum-esque cavalcade of "slay carpenters," "dirt nappers," mavericksand misfits, shifty plot salesmen, and drug-addled gravediggers, yet italso shows us their uncertainty and superstitions, and theirrelentless 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.
LC Classification NumberGT3213.A4T67 2008
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