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The Hunter coalfields. Then and now. An extinct mining community lies at rest in a small but crowded bone orchard. Its gravedigger led a spectacularly unkempt life, while holding firmly to the belief that a soul would not rest in a hole dug by machine. As the coalpit and village declined, he buried almost everyone he knew, before joining them.
'Out of an ordinary, former coal mining town come these extraordinary stories and extraordinary characters. So wonderful you'd wish they were true. A beguiling and loving evocation'. - Louis Nowra
'Tim Gooding brings the dead to life. A gallery of pigeon fanciers, strikers, rascals, bar brawlers, shunters, communists and pit queens you won't forget. Wry and unsentimental, this collection embodies the gritty culture of mining communities now extinct.' - Caroline Baum
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A Workingman's Cemetery unearths the contents of a small bone orchard in 41 short, fictional biographies. The histories of the interred, from a Hunter coalmining village now gone, are connected by the spectacularly unkempt life of Ronald Borthwick, the village gravedigger, who, over time, buried almost everyone he knew until, betrayed by a best mate in a village where solidarity is crucial, he was driven finally, murder-suicide. In the cemetery. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781923099401
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