{"product_id":"trash-2","title":"Trash!","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eTrash!\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePablo Pare-Poupart, Simon; Strauss\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781685892494\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eMelville House\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e192\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Montreal garbageman's sharp and funny memoir\/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to \"stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears\" . . .\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis fascinating no-bullshit account of twenty years in waste management paints a vivid portrait of the heroic labor, anarchic spirit, and violent conditions of the people who keep our cities clean. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eParé-Poupart's story is atypical: he started working as a garbageman to pay for school, and after earning graduate degrees and working in more \"respectable\" fields, he is still on a truck -- out of love for the physical rush, for his rough-and-tumble colleagues, and for an honesty and freedom that no other job has yet given him. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncludes eight black and white photographs of the author on the job. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHis sociology background informs his inquiry into our collective wastefulness and individual failure to confront the trash we produce. Every abstract observation comes with hilarious and hair-raising stories from the collection route to his days off spent hunting down furniture and toys for family and friends, as a committed freegan. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eTrash!\u003c\/i\u003e -- the French edition of which is a runaway bestseller in Canada -- explains and questions efforts to \"clean up\" a business with longstanding conventions of its own, a last bastion of well-paid employment for people who cannot fit in anywhere else. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAligned with great books about work from Zola to Orwell to Lucia Berlin, and in dialogue with societal critiques like \u003ci\u003eHow To Do Nothing, Trash!\u003c\/i\u003e will change how you think about your waste and the people who handle it.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Melville House","offers":[{"title":"Trash! | Pablo Pare-Poupart, Simon; Strauss | Paperback | 9781685892494 | New | Memoir 1734521","offer_id":49261363888280,"sku":"1734521","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81oz9qD184L.jpg?v=1781718254","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/trash-2","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}