The Dice Man
Luke Rhinehart.
Morrow: 1971. First edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Octavo. Chipping on the crown and heel of the spine's jacket but much less along the top of the jacket. Fading along the top of the jacket. Price clipped on the front flap. Corners and the ends of the boards a little bumped. A few smudges on the edges of the text block. 305 pages. Very good.
A novel, or a brazen fictionalized autobiography, that still scorches, and a first edition showing how something fifty years old can seem as young and rampaging as its imploding protagonist/author. He has (or will have) everything: a lovely wife, a promising career, even the ability to change lives as a hotshot psychiatrist. And he's bored with this linear life. Then the dice finds him. His first roll of fate: whether to rape his best friend's wife or not.
"My passion, both as psychiatrist and as Dice Man, has been to change human personality. Mine. Others'. Everyone's. To give men a sense of freedom, exhilaration, joy."


