Luke Rhinehart is the highly acclaimed author of six novels: The
Dice Man, Matari, Long Voyage Back, Adventures of Wim, The Search
for the Dice Man, and The Book of the Die. He is also the author of
seven screenplays, several based on his own novels.
London’s Time Out called The Dice Man “The most fashionable novel
of the early 1970s”, and in 1995 a BBC production named it “One of
the fifty most influential books of the last half of the twentieth
century.” Loaded magazine recently honored it with the prestigious
title “The Novel of the Century”. It has become an international
cult classic, being continually in print for thirty years in half a
dozen countries, and now enjoying a dramatic rebirth.
A major television documentary, Diceworld, was made about Luke and
the “Dice Man phenomenon” and aired on Channel Four in England in
June 1999. It was presented at the Amsterdam Documentary Film
Festival in November of that year and at the New York City
Documentary Festival in New York in June 2000.
Canadian and English production companies produced a six-part
dicing TV series for Canadian and UK television which was aired
last year. For three years The Diceman Travel Show has appeared on
the European Discovery Channel. The program is about two Englishmen
travelling in England, Europe and the U.S. who cast a green die to
determine where they go and what they do. In the last several
years, three different stage plays either based on The Dice Man or
using dicing as the centre of the story have been written and
staged. The latest, Dice House, by Paul Lucas, opens in the late
spring of 2001.
Search for the Diceman, first published by HarperCollins in October
1994, has also been published in an additional four European
countries. This sequel to The Dice Man tells the story of the
Diceman’s son who is forced to search for his father, who
disappeared twenty years ago. The conservative son sets out
rejecting all that his father stood for, but his picaresque search,
especially in one of his father’s still-existing Dice Communes,
means that by the time he finally confronts his father he has been
profoundly and hilariously changed.
The Book of the Die, published by Harper Collins in 2000, is the
“bible” of dice-living. It is a collection of essays, proverbs,
parables, cartoons, poems, and options for dicing. All are intended
to help free us from patterns which dam our lives – damning being
considered undesirable. This is a Book of Wisdom and, as is true of
any book of wisdom, contains a lot of bullshit. Not to worry. Luke
is merely trying to introduce the human race to an entirely new way
of looking at life and society and so shouldn’t be taken too
seriously. Politicians are serious. You’re not one of them, are
you?
(from The Preface)
'Touching, ingenious and beautifully comic' Anthony Burgess 'Hilarious and well-written... sex always seems to be an option' Time Out 'Brilliant... very impressive' Colin Wilson
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