The Rogue's Road to Retirement: How I Got My Groove Back after Sixty-FiveAnd How You Can, Too!

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George S. K. Riders "The Rogues Road to Retirement" takes a unique approach to growing old (don't do it!), with a gentle poke at society for treating retirees as a liability rather than a valuable asset waiting to be tapped. After retiring, Rider embarks on a bumpy journey to find himself and a new lease on life. For the first time he gets in touch

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"George Rider is a sage, a rascal, a raconteur, a patriot, and a supreme sentimentalist, who trains his gimlet eye (more accurately, his vodka-gimlet eye) on the passages and rituals of American life and family. He is also a literary revelation: the fresh new voice of the Bad-Boy Octogenarian." -- David Friend, Vanity Fair editor of creative development
"George Rider is a sage, a rascal, a raconteur, a patriot, and a supreme sentimentalist, who trains his gimlet eye (more accurately, his vodka-gimlet eye) on the passages and rituals of American life and family. He is also a literary revelation: the fresh new voice of the Bad-Boy Octogenarian." -- David Friend, Vanity Fair editor of creative development

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George S. K. Rider attended Phillips Academy Andover and Yale University before enlisting in the U.S. navy. He spent many years on Wall Street as a trader. At age seventy-four, he began writing and has published articles in The Tin Can Sailor, the Great South Bay Magazine, and The Southampton Review. He lives in Essex, Connecticut.