Chances (novel) Chances (novel) Chances is a 1981 novel by Jackie Collins and the first in her "Santangelo" novels series. The novel has three focal points, two of them focusing on the main characters of the novel and a third during the New York City blackout of 1977. "Chances" is broken up into parts. The first part looks at the blackout in New York City and how this affects the main characters. The second is focused on Gino Santangelo and later includes his children Lucky and Dario. The third part examines the life of Carrie Berkley and later her son Steven. The
Boss of the Pool are books in which "the young characters with learning difficulties...are not only the sketchiest of stereotypes, but demonised as well", but "Boss of the Pool", as well as Elizabeth Laird's Red Sky is "a 'caring' narrative": Boss of the Pool is a book "in which the focaliser becomes a better person because of his or her circumstances, although the catalyst could indeed have been any crisis, since the character with learning difficulties is only superficially presented." At least two teaching guides for using the book have been published. The National Library of New Zealand includes it in their list of