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
The Kiss of the Octopus supernatural lovers. With "The Kiss of the Octopus" he extends once again the imagination of a famous picture and offers his literary equivalence. The present theme of animality in all his books is carried across the engraving to the paroxysm of art and of transgression and found between others. The hallucinosis advantageous of erotic situations also returns in Japanese tradition idealised by Yasunari Kawabata in "The House of the Sleeping Beauties". "The Kiss of the octopus" was received well, following the example of "The Paradise of storms" in 1986 and reissued concomitamment with "Flamboyants" and "The Orgy, the Snow" in