Dick Swiveller, the wittily named park ranger who is by turns both
ill-tempered and kind, Winston 'Franzia' Weatherby, the only wino
Swiveller knows who really drinks wine, One-eyed Rita. . . Fern. .
. One-Beer Bob. . . these are just some of the memorable characters
who inhabit Jerry Wilson's stories. Drawing heavily on personal
experience and with keen eyed observation of the human condition,
Wilson writes about broken lives, the dispossessed, those who are
unwanted, who go unnoticed, and yet somehow manage to survive. This
is an America that will be immediately familiar to anyone who has
seen the photographs of Dorothea Lange or read Charles Bukowski,
John Steinbeck and other chroniclers of the underbelly of
America-only the years have moved on. There is anger in these
tales. . . humanity, love, humor and compassion too; but what makes
them really special is the maturity in Jerry Wilson's writing that
marks him as a new and necessary voice in American fiction.
Jerry Wilson was born in 1961 in Boise, Idaho. He dropped out of
high school at age 17 and joined the Air Force. He was discharged a
sergeant four years later. Wilson has a B.A. degree in Psychology
and has worked as a dishwasher, cook, concrete finisher, jackhammer
operator, orderly in a psychiatric hospital, scrud in a wastewater
treatment plant, janitor, truck driver, grocery checker, day
laborer, fine jewelry salesman, and casual postal carrier. He
currently works for the Boise parks department. He has two
daughters, Amanda and Declynn, and a grandson Max.
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