Dice Man - Paperback

by Luke Rhinehart (Author)

A cult masterpiece named novel of the century by Loaded and one of the fifty most influential books of the last half-century by the BBC, The Dice Man remains a shocking, humorous, and deeply unsettling exploration of the ultimate freedom: the freedom to be anyone.

Bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart is about to make the most dangerous decision of his life: he's going to let a pair of dice decide his next move.

What begins as a playful experiment in "dice therapy" quickly spirals into a subversive, anarchic revolution against the self. As Rhinehart sheds his identity one roll at a time, he invites the reader into a blackly comic world where morality is a roll away and the only sin is consistency.

Entertaining, humorous, scary, shocking, subversive, The Dice Man is one of the cult bestsellers of our time.

"A blackly comic amusement park of a book." --Time

Author Biography

Luke Rhinehart is the pen name of George Powers Cockcroft (1932-2020), an American novelist and psychologist whose work fundamentally challenged the mid-century concept of a fixed identity. After earning his PhD in psychology from Columbia University, Rhinehart taught university courses on Zen and Western literature, where he first introduced the radical concept of "dice living"--a philosophy that later formed the foundation of his masterpiece.

First published in 1971, The Dice Man became an instant international cult sensation. It was named "Novel of the Century" by Loaded magazine and hailed by the BBC as "one of the fifty most influential books of the last half of the twentieth century." Beyond his fiction, Rhinehart was a world traveler who spent years sailing a trimaran ketch across the globe, eventually settling in a former Sufi retreat in upstate New York. His legacy continues to inspire millions of "dice people" worldwide to embrace the liberating power of chance.