His second novel, Matari (1975), was set in 18th-century Japan; the beautiful heroine flees her samurai husband in the company of two poets  Jules and Jim meets Yojimbo. If it lands on a number from two to six, Ill do what I would have done anyway: bring the dirty glasses back to the kitchen, brush my teeth, take a double aspirin, go to bed beside my sleeping wife, and maybe masturbate discreetly thinking of Arlene. They settled in Canaan, New York, on land that was part of a Sufi commune in which they had lived for a while. It was reissued in 2008 as White Wind Black Rider. A play, The Dice House, by Paul Lucas, debuted in 2001 and had a West End run in 2004.
His second novel, "Mataz", was set in the latter half of the 19th century.
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