title: The Old Man's Letters, Second Edition
author:  Michael Reisig 
description: "...Jake Strider delivers a timeless narrative of acute observations leavened with anecdotal humor." -- <i>--Sarah McNeil, The Jonesboro Sun</i><br /><br />"...Old Jake Strider will make you laugh out loud one minute and rend your heart in the next. He's wonderful!" -- <i>Best-selling author Richard Noone</i><br /><br />"...a timeless narrative of acute observations leavened with anecdotal humor...dead-on." -- <i>The Jonesboro Sun</i><br /><br />"...gives us a spontaneous, full-throated belly laugh, but more often makes us stop...A gem of a collection." -- <i>The Northwest Arkansas Times</i><br /><br />"A book for rural America to brandish and cherish. Excellent!" -- <i>--The Ouachita Writers Guild</i><br /><br />"As earthy as the rocky hill soil and pure as a pristine Ozark Mountain stream..." -- <i>-- Maylon Rice, The Northwest Arkansas Times</i><br /><br />"Forget Chicken Soup. This is the meat and potatoes of Middle <P>America!" -- <i>--Best-selling author, Richard Noone</i><br /><br />"Reisig's 'old Jake Strider' is one of the great story-tellers of a passing generation..." -- <i>Tom McDonald, editor, The Log Cabin Democrat</i><br /><br />"We thought tall tales were from Texas, until we met this Arkansas wit who moved in and tickled our fancy.... -- <i>-- Lyn Blackmon, The Texarkana Gazette</i><br /><br />"You'll laugh so hard, you'll embarrass yourself--and you'll be <P>heart-touched to silence." <P> -- <i>-- Scott Bourns, editor, The <P>Mena Star</i>
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  FIRST VINTAGE EBOOKS EDITION, MAY 2012  
    
    
  
  
  _Copyright ©1988 by Michael Crichton_
  
  
  All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Vintage Books, a
  division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in paperback in
  the United States by Ballantine Books, New York, in 1988, and subsequently
  published in Great Britain by Arrow Books Limited, an imprint of Random House
  Group Limited, London, in 1994.
  
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are
  the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely
  coincidental.  
    
    
  
  
  _The Terminal Man_ first appeared in slightly different from in _Playboy_
  magazine.  
    
  
  
  **Vintage eISBN: 978-0-307-81642-9**  
    
    
  
  
  [www.vintagebooks.com](http://www.vintagebooks.com)