More than anything in the world I wanted to be a gospel singer—a little girl in a white fringe vest with silver and gold crosses embroidered on the back. I wanted gray-headed ladies to cry when they saw my pink cheeks.
“Will smiled and said 'What is written across my face?
Murder, drugs, sex, violence, and betrayal--it's all here in this era of political correctness where trash is king. Trash (A Collection of Short Stories) is adult fiction about sexual need without the window dressing of decency.
Follow the Garbage Truck on its adventure. Then make up adventures for your own Garbage Truck. Includes Driving Lessons: tips for parents on using this story to make recycling fun and educational.
Preface: Deciding to live -- River of names -- "The meanest woman ever left Tennessee"--Mama -- Gospel song -- I'm working on my charm -- Steal away -- Monkeybites -- Don't tell me you don't know -- Demon lover -- Her thighs -- The muscle ...
... was a sick guy who liked to stick his dick up another guy's ass. Because my father hated gays, I had an immediate and everlasting empathy for them. Jack Reynolds, too, couldn't escape abuse and humiliation down at 20 Laurie Anne Hoover.
NOW A MAJOR FILM BY STEPHEN DALDRY AND RICHARD CURTIS Raphael is a dumpsite boy. He spends his days wading through mountains of steaming trash, sifting it, sorting it, breathing it, sleeping next to it.
Trash, Allison's landmark collection, laid the groundwork for her critically acclaimed Bastard Out of Carolina, the National Book Award finalist that was hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "simply stunning...a wonderful work of ...
Author Jon Davies argues that Trash, so comical yet so heartrending, is an allegory for the experiences of Dallesandro, Woodlawn, their co-stars, and countless other human ''leftovers,'' whose self-fashioning for Warhol and Morrissey's gaze ...
« Je fouille la décharge depuis que je sais marcher ; les gens m'ont toujours dit "Un jour, tu trouveras quelque chose de vraiment spécial".
Andy Mulligan has written a powerful story about unthinkable poverty—and the kind of hope and determination that can transcend it.
others discard. For example, junk art—not the old variety, meaning tourist or airport art, but the new, aesthetically validated variety in which “recupérés” or art made from recuperated trash is now being sold on the tourist and art ...
Trash
"Amid gritty free verse, Darrow interweaves beautifully crafted forms such as the villanelle, sestina and pantoum, whose intricate patterns suit Sissy's mournful voice." — Publishers WeeklyFor sixteen-year-old Sissy and her...
Fourteen-year-olds Raphael and Gardo team up with a younger boy, Rat, to figure out the mysteries surrounding a bag Raphael finds during their daily life of sorting through trash in a third-world country's dump.
Trash proudly assembles more than 150 masterpieces of twisted brilliance: lowbrow graphic poster art from the sickest, sleaziest, sexiest, and weirdest films from the 1950s through the 1980s. A feast...