Ballantine, New York, 1983, 1st thus.  ISBN 0-345-30265-6.  MMPB, 499 pages.  Wraps have light edge ware, light creases and reading creases, some age toning, bit of soil at lower fore-edge corner; binding sound.  Interior clean and unmarked with tanning pages.  ‘A deranged but brilliant scientist dreams he has a series of conversations with Einstein.  Each morning, when he wakes up, he follows Einstein’s instructions - until he has built a fantastic computer, a computer so fantastic that it is, in fact, Satan.  Satan has returned to earth, in the guise of this machine, to be psychoanalyzed - he is very unhappy about his relationship with God, and no one on earth seems to like or understand him.  If cured, Satan promises to reveal to his analyst The Great Secret of Life…’ (from first page)