{"product_id":"book-1037","title":"Trash!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTrash!\u003c\/em\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAligned with great books about work from Zola to Orwell to Lucia Berlin, and in dialogue with societal critiques like \u003cem\u003eHow to Do Nothing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTrash!\u003c\/em\u003e will change how you think about your waste and the people who handle it. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":50569761259824,"sku":"BD1037","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":50569761292592,"sku":"ZE1037","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":50569761325360,"sku":"ZM1037","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/1037-Square-cover.jpg?v=1779474720","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-1037","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}