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 Books
Quick Links: The Dice Man • Whim • White Wind, Black Rider
The Search for the Dice Man • Long Voyage Back
The Book of the Die • Naked Before the World
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The Dice Man
The Dice Man is about the idea of one’s being able to explode out of a typical narrow existence by letting chance and risk into one’s life.
London’s Time Out called it "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 by naming The Dice Man "The Novel of the Century".
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Whim
Whim is a comic-philosophical sequel to The Dice Man, but this time instead of a Lucifer loose in the world in the form of Luke in The Dice Man, we have an innocent embodiment of Chance in the character of Whim.
"Anarchic, hip, subversive and comic . . . " — The Times, London; "One of my favorite reads of the year . . . Pure entertainment" — Belfast Telegraph; "Zany, bizarre, inventive . . . often touching." —Bestsellers.
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White Wind, Black Rider
White Wind, Black RIder (published in the U.K. as Matari) is a romantic adventure story about three Japanese samurai-poets and their conflict over the beautiful wife who is fleeing from one of them.
"A powerful, exciting yarn" —All About Books; "An impressive, solemn, but sometimes hilarious drama of 18th century Japan" —London Sunday Telegraph;
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The Search for the Dice Man
This sequel to The Dice Man tells the story of the Dice man's son Larry being forced to search for his father, who has disappeared for the last twenty years. The conservative son sets out rejecting all that his father stood for, but his search--especially in one of his father's still-existing Dice Communes--profoundly and hilariously changes him.
"Always intriguing, sometimes erotic, and often funny, (it) will set you thinking . . ." — London Evening Press.
"Refreshingly different and quite humorous . . ." —The Leader
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Long Voyage Back
Long Voyage Back, first published by Delacorte in 1983, has also been published in a half-dozen countries. Chosen as one of the ten best science fiction novels of that year, and as one of the hundred best such novels of the decade, it is a Luke Rhinehart action-adventure story of a handful of people escaping from a nuclear holocaust, sailing from one desperate situation to another until they are literally at the bottom of the world. It was reprinted in 1995 by the Naval Institute Press.
"A tremendously powerful book. Rhinehart's sense of drama is exercised on every page . . ." —The Washington Post; "The most devastingly powerful book . . . An absolute gem of a suspense yarn." —The Pittsburgh Gazette; "A tremendous work of fiction--utterly gripping . . . " —Time Out, London.
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The Book of the Die
The Book of the Die is the “bible” of dice-living. It is a collection of essays, proverbs, parables, cartoons, poems, and essays by other dicepeople, all intended to help free us from patterns which dam our lives—damning being considered undesirable.
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Naked Before the World
A Lovely Pornographic Love Story
Naked Before the World is set at the height of the roaring sixties on the Island of Mallorca and tells the hilarious story of what happens when squares and hippies, artists and intellectuals, peasants and prophets, try to co-exist in a tiny mountain villlage.
MORE ON NAKED BEFORE THE WORLD
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Where to Buy Luke’s Books:
www.amazon.com.uk is the homepage for Amazon.com in the UK. Click on “Book Search” and then type in Rhinehart, Luke, and you can find all of Luke’s books in print in the UK and readers’ comments on them.
www.amazon.com is the homepage for Amazon.com in the US.
www.harpercollins.co.uk is the website of Luke's English publisher. Click on "Authors" and then "Author's websites" to get to Luke's page.
www.abebooks.com is the best place to go to locate used and out-of-print editions of Luke's books.
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