- Paperback: 165 pages
- Publisher: Cane Hill Pr (June 1988)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0943433002
- ISBN-13: 978-0943433004
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 204 g
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From Library Journal
Shaney Fleet is the owner of a working-class bar, and his problem is garbage. When a private hauler tries to coerce Shaney into purchasing collection services, he resists. Soon no hauler will remove his black-listed trash, and garbage that is not even his own begins to appear at his front door. Ultimately, his apartment is torched, his head bashed in, and his bar closed by the health department. In this well-wrought parable of modern urban life, literal garbage becomes a metaphor for the petty encumbrances, bureaucratic entanglements, and apparently insoluble problems that surround Shaney. As in the works of Kafka and Beckett, the mood is at once ominously threatening and irrepressibly comic. Albert E. Wilhelm, Tennessee Technological Univ., Cookeville
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Breathless, desperate and gripping, July 27 1998
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This review is from: Garbage (Paperback)
Fast-paced, panicky, comic, stressful, insufferable, and not without moments of grace. On page one, the narrator, a barkeep, is approached by thugs who want to pressure him into using their mob-controlled garbage service. The story progresses from there. The story is told in a matter-of-fact style by a narrator who defines resilience and individuality. A book of desperation but also of hope for the human spirit.
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Great., Jun 28 2010
By Bob Swain "Seattle" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Garbage (Paperback)
This book is exactly the opposite of its title. It should be read by every American.
I can't understand why it hasn't become one of the greatest of American classics. I read it twenty years ago and can't forget it.
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