{"product_id":"trash-a-garbagemans-story-paperback-2","title":"Trash!: A Garbageman's Story - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSimon Pare-Poupart\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePablo Strauss\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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.\"\u003ci\u003e -- \u003c\/i\u003eDwight Garner, \u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA Montreal garbageman's sharp and funny memoir\/exposé, in which he attempts to convince people to \"stop imagining that your garbage magically disappears\" . . . \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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSimon Paré-Poupart \u003c\/b\u003ebecame a garbageman in Montreal to pay for his college education. After graduate studies in sociology and international business, and work experience as a journalist and social worker, he returned to the job, and has been a garbageman for twenty years. He lives in Montreal, Quebec. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePablo Strauss\u003c\/b\u003e has translated numerous books from Quebec French into English, and is a three-time finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for translation. He lives in Quebec City.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 6.9 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 16, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48707148677369,"sku":"9781685892494","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/qOAy0wPGg09781685892494_11b038ad-01b0-449e-8f84-841792243074.webp?v=1784891518","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/trash-a-garbagemans-story-paperback-2","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}