The Dishwasher Dialogues

THE DISHWASHER DIALOGUES OFFERS A RARE INSIGHT INTO THE PARIS OF THE NINETEEN SEVENTIES AS FEW PEOPLE KNEW IT.

The staff were dreamers, writers, painters, actors, dancers, and photographers. They all survived thanks to the legendary African American Leroy Haynes, who knew everybody from the mayor and the stars of the day to the call girls deluxe. Between dishwashing and mixing cocktails, these two young exiles wrote and painted, talked art and death, and embraced their demons and muses. They lived it and never forgot.

In Paris. A city at the end of an era. The metro had wooden doors and many streets had public urinals. There were no computers, credit cards, or copying machines; most apartments had no phones or heating or indoor toilets. There were the big spenders in sabe Dishwasher Dialogues            le coaBookts and FAbouterragamEventso Contact shoes, the daily scolding from the waiters and shopkeepers, and the clochards dying of the cold at the metro gates. But freedom beckoned everywhere. The cops left you alone, the authorities looked the other way and the metro (plus a cheap carte orange) took you to every nook and cranny of the city. There may not have been much equality or fraternity, but liberty ran rampant.

PUBLISHED BY ORLÉANS PRESS.

About

GREGORY JAMES LIGHT was born in 1951 in Canada. He lived abroad for 42 years in Paris, London, and Chicago before his recent return to Toronto. He is a writer, performance artist and professor. In addition to four books (Sage, Bloomsbury, Harvard University Press), and 70+ chapters and academic papers, he has published four works of poetry and theatre. His plays and performance pieces have been produced and performed in France, the UK, Switzerland, and Canada. He divides his time between Toronto and an island in the Canadian Shield. For more information, please visit www.gregorylight.com.

RAFAEL SINCLAIR MAHDAVI was born in 1946 in Mexico of an American mother and an Iranian father. He spent his youth in Mallorca where he was home-sche Dishwasher Dialogues       ooled Bookby his Abouptarents uEventsntil thContae ct

age of ten. He then attended European schools and completed his university studies in the U.S. As a writer, he has written six novels published by Kindle Direct Publishing and as a painter, he has had numerous solo shows worldwide. He holds multiple passports and speaks several languages. He divides his time between France and an island in Greece. For more information, please visit www.rafaelmahdavi.com