{"product_id":"trash-simon-pare-poupart-9781685892494","title":"Trash!: A Garbageman's Story","description":"\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\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon Pare-Poupart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1685892493\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781685892494\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Melville House Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Simon Pare-Poupart","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48453239963903,"sku":"9781685892494","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f5f4054a-ad45-4215-a772-c5e19bfc9ddd.jpg?v=1777299024","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/trash-simon-pare-poupart-9781685892494","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}