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DISHWASHER
By: Pete Jordan

One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States

Harper Perennial
May 2007
On Sale: May 1, 2007
384 pages
ISBN: 0060896426
EAN: 9780060896423
Paperback
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Non-Fiction Memoir

Dishwasher is Pete Jordan's amusing memoir of his itinerant dishwashing extravaganza. "For 12 years, I was the most prolific dishlicker of them all. From 1989 – 2001, I dished my way around the country, unwittingly searching for direction. From a bagel joint in New Mexico to a Mexican joint in Brooklyn; from a dinner train in Rhode Island to the Lawrence Welk Resort in Branson, MO; from an upper–crust ladies' club to a crusty hippie commune – I washed the nation's dishes," he explains.

Part adventure, part self–parody, and part self–discovery, it reveals how he transformed into "Dishwasher Pete" – the ultimate professional dish dog, unlikely folk hero, writer, and publisher of his own cult 'zine – and his struggles to find love, stability, and yes, the elusive happy–ever–after.

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