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Dice: Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck | 
 enlarge | Author: Ricky Jay
Creator: Rosamond Purcell
Publisher: Quantuck Lane
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
Buy New: $2.27
You Save: $10.68 (82%)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1134720
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 64
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 7.4 x 0.4
ISBN: 1593720300
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9781593720308
ASIN: 1593720300
Publication Date: November 5, 2007
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Product Description
A classic small celebration and meditation on dice through the ages; both brilliant and beautiful.
"Jay's writing is exactly what one would expect from the extremely erudite, witty and decent author of Learned Pigs & Fireproof Women and Jay's Journal of Anomalies. There is an explanation of the etymology of "craps," and there are various tales of armless dicers, ingenious hustlers, and Scandinavian kings of the Middle Ages who diced for islands. Dice turn out to be rich subjects for Purcell's photography. She presents them as, in a way, monumental ruins on a Stonehenge-type of scale relative to the book. Their forms are enriched by their disintegration and are bathed in light that their varying translucence seems to contain for a moment before releasing it to the lens . . . The book itself is, like a die, a modest object, small for a book of photography and, with a short text, casually organized."—Crispin Sartwell, Los Angeles Times 21 color photographs.
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 Brilliant November 29, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I couldn't disagree more with the first customer review. Rosamond Purcell's photographs of dice in various states of decay are lush and lyrical--all on their own, they are well worth the price of the book. The text, which is indeed brief, is both whimsical and erudite. A great, great stocking stuffer for anyone with a taste for beauty or chance.
 goofy October 30, 2007
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Dice: Deception, Fate & Rotten Luck
What an abject waste of time and twelve or so bucks! The book is a few paragraphs of information on the history of using "false" dice in gambling. There are many arty photographs of celluloid dice in various stages of decomposition. Goofy - just goofy.
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