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LUKE RHINEHART

LUKE RHINEHART. G EORGE C OCKCROFT. About Cockcroft.

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LUKE RHINEHART

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  1. LUKE RHINEHART

  2. GEORGE COCKCROFT

  3. About Cockcroft • Luke Rhinehart (George Cockcroft) about: Luke Rhinehart, author George Cockcroft'un Alias. George Cockcroft in November 1932 in the United States came into the world. Author has a doctorate in philosophy from the university colombia. Married in June 1956 and has 3 children. • Cockcroft, dice man from start to write for a long time ago and started experimenting with dice, but this novel has been slowed progress. Cockcroft in 1970 Deya (mallorca / spain Island) also met with a publisher and full-time, the "Dice Man" started to write. In 1971 became the leader of the zar cult and has released books.

  4. LUKE’S BOOKS • Luke’s books explore self and illusion, and freedom and chance. He has dealt particularly with the ways in which modern western societies limit the spontaneity and creativity of most humans. He sees reason and seriousness as a form of mental illness, a madness that seems to be sweeping humankind towards a civilizational and ecological disaster. And makes it all seem funny as hell.

  5. ::The Dice Man:: • Interest in Luke’s most famous book, The Dice Man, written more than thirty years ago, has undergone a miraculous rebirth in the last several years and is now at an all-time high. The book has been published or republished in nineteen countries and is now selling more copies throughout the world than at any time before. A new American edition of THE DICE MAN was published in June of 2006.

  6. Dice Dice Dice 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".

  7. "Luke Rhinehart and THE DICE MAN have launched a psychiatric revolution." • — London Sunday Telegraph"A fine piece of fiction . . . touching, ingenious and beautifully comic." • — Anthony Burgess" . . . Extremely funny and very impressive." • — Colin Wilson"THE DICE MAN is a blackly comic amusement park-of a book,replete with vertiginous roller coaster rides of the spirit,feverishomnisexual trips through the tunnel, of love, and crazy images reflected in the . . . distorting funhouse mirrors of the mind." • — TIME Magazine • "Weird, hilarious . . . an outlandishly enjoyable book." • — St. Louis Post-Dispatch.Witty reckless clever ... . a caper at the edge of nihilism. The vacuum of the will--Rhinehart has diagnosed the malady brilliantly." • — Melvin Maddocks in LIFE

  8. REFERENCE • http://www.lukerhinehart.net/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luke_Rhinehart • http://www.kitapaski.com/roman/zar-adam-luke-rhinehart.html

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