{"product_id":"trash-a-garbagemans-story-simon-pare-poupart","title":"Trash! A Garbageman's Story, Simon Pare-Poupart","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Raffish and spirited . . . a nonconformist cri de coeur . . .  Usually, comparisons to Bourdain are fatuous. This time it’s accurate . . . It’s been a long time since I’ve read so good and rowdy a memoir about blue-collar work.”\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e—\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003eDwight Garner,\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIncludes eight black and white photographs of the author on the job. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrash!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAligned with great books about work from Zola to Orwell to Lucia Berlin, and in dialogue with societal critiques like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow To Do Nothing, Trash!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e will change how you think about your waste and the people who handle it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52990102372661,"sku":"9781685892494","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/4289\/2853\/files\/9781685892494.jpg?v=1781194362","url":"https:\/\/researchdevstore.myshopify.com\/products\/trash-a-garbagemans-story-simon-pare-poupart","provider":"Research \u0026 Development Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}