The Old Man's Letters: A Combination of Down-Home Country Humor and Slick, Sophisticated Wit--Insightful Anecdotes That Will Tickle Your Funny Bone and Touch Your Heart.. This item is unavailable.The Old Man's Letters: A Combination of Down-Home Country Humor and Slick, Sophisticated Wit--Insightful Anecdotes That Will Tickle Your Funny Bone and Touch Your Heart.

Meet Jake Strider--a cantankerous old country sage with an acerbic wit and a ribald sense of humor. "The Old Man's Letters" chronicles Strider's more notable correspondence to his son over a two-decade period. It's an hilarious, remarkable perceptive panorama of rural life, and the world outside it--A combination of down-home country humor and slick, sophisticated wit that will tickle your funny bone and touch your heart.

Jake's letters run the gamut from bizarre tales of crazy friends to poignant social and political points of view. In between it all, he paints a portrait of country living so vivid that you'll taste the rain on the wind--and for an hour or two, you will become part of America's heartland.

Michael Reisig was born in Enid, Oklahoma, in 1948. The first son of a military family, he graduated high school in Tampa, Florida, and attended Saint Petersburg Junior College. After college, he relocated to the Florida Keys, establishing a commercial diving business and traveling throughout the southern hemisphere--diving, treasure hunting, adventuring, and writing of his travels. Reisig presently resides in the Ouachita Mountains of Arkansas. He is the "Ouachita Outdoors" editor for The Mena Star, and continues to pen his novels.