<DIV><B>Charles Wilkins</B>, then a university student, took a job as a gravedigger in a vast corporate cemetery in the east end of Toronto during the hazy summer of 1969. The bizarre-but-true events of that time-a midsummer gravediggers' strike, the unearthing of a victim of an unsolved murder, and a little illegal bone-shifting-play out among a Barnum-esque parade of mavericks and misfits in this macabre and hilarious memoir.<br><BR>Amid relentless gallows humor and the inevitable reminders of what it is, finally, to be human, Wilkins provides an unforgettable insider's view of a morbidly fascinating industry. <I>In the Land of Long Fingernails</I> is a story of mortality, materialism, friendship and sexuality? and the gradual coming-of-age of an impressionable young man.<BR></DIV>