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The Dice Man

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Jul 1983
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"One of the fifty most influential books of the last half of the twentieth century," a comic novel about a therapist making life choices by rolling dice. (BBC)
 
The cult classic that can still change your life . . . Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart―and in some ways changes the world as well. Because once you hand over your life to the dice, anything can happen. Entertaining, humorous, scary, shocking, subversive, The Dice Man is one of the cult bestsellers of our time.
 
"A fine piece of fiction . . . touching, ingenious and beautifully comic." —Anthony Burgess, author of A Clockwork Orange

"Luke Rhinehart and THE DICE MAN have launched a psychiatric revolution." —London Sunday Telegraph

"A blackly comic amusement park of a book." —TIME Magazine

"Weird, hilarious . . . an outlandishly enjoyable book." —St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Witty reckless clever  . . .  . a caper at the edge of nihilism." —LIFE Magazine

"Brilliant . . . much like CATCH-22 . . . the sex extra-juicy." —The Houston Post

"Outrageously funny." —Fort Worth Star-Telegram

"Hilarious and well-written . . . A brilliant summary of modern nihilism. Dice living will be popular, no doubt of that." —Time Out (London)

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First Edition Jul 1983 Dell ISBN13 9780440319665 ISBN10 0440319668
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Jun 1998 Overlook Press ISBN13 9780879518646 ISBN10 0879518642
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Dec 1999 HarperCollins (UK) ISBN13 9780006513902 ISBN10 0006513905
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May 1998 Overlook Press ISBN13 9781590207048 ISBN10 1590207041
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May 1998 The Overlook Press ISBN10 B07MXDHN9V
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May 1998 Overlook ISBN10 B005N1OUZW
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Aug 2012 HarperCollins (UK) ISBN13 9780007322244 ISBN10 0007322240
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Sep 2018 HarperCollins Publishers Limited ISBN10 B07FM66YYQ
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