{"id":2004400,"date":"2010-07-29T00:04:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T22:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/2010\/07\/29\/beneath-the-grime-the-words-avenue-park-by-jerry-wilson\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T10:09:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T08:09:39","slug":"beneath-the-grime-the-words-avenue-park-by-jerry-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.luxsure.fr\/en\/2010\/07\/29\/beneath-the-grime-the-words-avenue-park-by-jerry-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Beneath the grime, the words: AVENUE PARK by Jerry Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Streets Of Philadelphia – Bruce Springsteen<\/a><\/p>\n

Goodbye Philadelphia – Peter Cincotti<\/a><\/p>\n

Avenue de Jerry Wilson Park<\/span><\/span>
\nTranslated from the English by Luc Baranger<\/span><\/span>
\nZanzibar \u00e9ditions<\/span>
\n126 pages<\/span>
\n14 euros<\/span><\/p>\n

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PARC AVENUE <\/p><\/div>\n

There’s talk of news, but we’ve been lied to again. Decidedly so. In fact, these are not short stories, but rather a fake first novel. “Park Avenue” to signify a (more or less) green space. But not too green. We read about the tiny lives of tramps, homeless people, alcoholics, drug addicts & Co, who hang out along the sidewalks of the invisible. The universe is set: a good subprime crisis, affecting the banking and financial system. But who cares? We’re a long way from all that. And there’s no money. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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ENCORE UN FOUTU SAMEDI SOIR<\/p><\/div>\n

The author, born in Idaho, is Jerry Wilson. In fact, he still lives there. He has filled his life with a mosaic of jobs: H.P. nurse, janitor, sewage treatment plant worker, grocery store clerk, truck driver, construction worker, jewelry salesman, and finally park ranger. “Park ranger. Here we are. With a sharp eye and an insider’s – almost surgical – knowledge of this ramshackle milieu, these episodes + shows + encounters form a screen\/echo in his mind and drive him to want to (learn to) write. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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JERRY WILSON & PARC AVENUE<\/p><\/div>\n

126 pages of hard-hitting action. Swiveller, employed by the municipality but a veteran of the underworld, takes us by the hand and introduces us to his playmates. From dirty tricks to domestic violence, from immoral sexuality to human waste, we’re taken for a ride. It’s almost like a fitness trail, just so rhythmically paced that the anguish and disgust sometimes grab you by the gut. Thank goodness for the sense of humor. And it’s with a lovely sneer, almost cheek to cheek, that we take pleasure in delving “on the side of shit”, to cast the gentlest of glances at these off-lifers, with eyes that make ours droop. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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It’s a book that doesn’t teach any lessons about existence, nor is it invested with any kind of life-saving mission, but it does create an “exotic curiosity”, and a fine one at that. Go and read something that stinks, you’ll see. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Elisa Palmer<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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