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The book that made Collins one of America's favorite authors sweeps readers from the sophisticated playgrounds of Europe to the glittering gambling palaces of Las Vegas, plunging into the world of the Santangelo crime family. The book introduces street kid Gino Santangelo, who makes it all the way to the top, and his beautiful and daring daughter, Lucky.

This story of Lucky Santangelo, whose hunger for power enables her to take away her father's empire -- and leads her into a love-hate rivalry.

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Overview

The book that made Collins one of America's favorite authors sweeps readers from the sophisticated playgrounds of Europe to the glittering gambling palaces of Las Vegas, plunging into the world of the Santangelo crime family. The book introduces street kid Gino Santangelo, who makes it all the way to the top, and his beautiful and daring daughter, Lucky.

This story of Lucky Santangelo, whose hunger for power enables her to take away her father's empire -- and leads her into a love-hate rivalry.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780446357173
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
  • Publication date: 3/25/2008
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reissue
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 816
  • Sales rank: 52,472
  • Series: Lucky Santangelo Series
  • Product dimensions: 4.25 (w) x 6.75 (h) x 1.38 (d)

Meet the Author

Jackie Collins
Jackie Collins
In the world of sensational fiction, Jackie Collins is considered the Queen of Trash, the Duchess of Dirty Books. It might be easier to dog-ear the pages in her novel that don't have a steamy bedroom interlude. But even more than sex, the characters in her show-biz soap operas lust after something else: power.

Biography

Louis Malle may have branded Jackie Collins a "raunchy moralist," but it wasn't her sense of ethical propriety that had her in a snit when Kenneth Starr dutifully reported to the nation the details of the pseudo-coupling between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. It was her literary pride. "Everybody said that the Monica Lewinsky stuff in the Starr report was like a Jackie Collins book," she told the Chicago Tribune in 2001, "but if I'd written it, the sex would have been better."

Unquestionably. Jacqueline Susann may be the Emily Bronte of the naughty bits, but Collins is surely Charlotte, having filled her books to the rim with skin since her first novel The World Is Full of Married Men appeared in 1968. Since then, there has been a string of sexy Hollywood moguls, sexy models, sexy wives of Hollywood moguls, sexy divorcées and sexy children of Hollywood moguls in such titles as Chances, Lucky and Throb as well as The Bitch and The Stud (both made into movies starring big sister Joan).

The critics, when they take notice at all, tend to sniff. ("While no one expects Lady Boss to be a literary banquet, certainly a yummy little snack is in order" is about the best to expect from The New York Times.) But those who can look past the satin sheets and champagne flutes see more going on in the Collins canon. Hers is a dissection of the vacuous, viperish entertainment class hiding behind designer sunglasses in Los Angeles. Vanity Fair called her "Hollywood's own Marcel Proust.” The Advocate hinted that she might be the Charles Dickens of Beverly Hills. And Joe Queenan, a Hollywood player himself, said Collins's 1993 novel American Star was nothing less than a lament of the American family's demise.

"It would be easy to self-righteously label this book trashy and worthless -- but it's not entirely either," the Detroit News wrote in a review of Collins's 1983 novel Hollywood Wives. "Jackie Collins has a talent for titillation and a knack for wooing the most reluctant of readers into a plot that spends 15 percent of the time peeking at people in the sack and the other 85 percent daydreaming about it. Deliberately or not, she speaks eloquently of emptiness through the lives of people who would seem to have everything: French poodles, Mexican maids, American Express."

And Judy Bass wrote in the Los Angeles Times that Collins's gimlet eye for detail is what makes her novels such a gas: "Collins caricatures the life styles of the rich and famous with devastating accuracy. She spoofs every nuance of their attire, speech and relationships, never allowing tedium or predictability to dilute the reader's fun."

There are a number of recurring characters in Collins's books, though none better known than Lucky Santangelo, the sexy (natch) film studio owner who has appeared in Lucky, Lady Boss, Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge and Dangerous Kiss. The Lucky series bring together all the required ingredients of a Collins cocktail: the rich and famous, the shifty Hollywood shenanigans, scheming opportunists and a bug-on-the-wall vantage point of every -- or every other -- bedroom in the 90210 zip code.

Time once wrote of a Collins novel that it allowed the reader the rare opportunity to watch adverbs mate. Of course. There's a high art to the lowbrow. The Village Voice, writing in 2000, understood that: "The beauty of the trashy novel is twofold: It's a lightning-quick read, and you can howl in smug superiority as you turn the pages. Lethal Seduction, the latest from well-appointed and leopard-print-swathed Queen of Trash Jackie Collins, is a prime example of page-turning, literary-hauteur-stoking fun."

But it might have been People, reviewing Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge, that most succinctly summed up the contradictory seductiveness of the Jackie Collins novel: "embarrassing to pick up, impossible to put down."

Good To Know

Collins makes a mean meatloaf. "It's the herbs and spices," she told Biography magazine, "and my essence."

Collins spends about a year writing each novel, and does so entirely in longhand.

She eschews the stodgy demands of grammar. "I don't basically understand grammar," she is quoted as saying in Contemporary Popular Writers. "I call myself a street writer. I write purely by instinct. I've decided people don't speak in grammatical conversations.... The important thing is I get people into the bookstores who probably wouldn't be there otherwise."

    1. Also Known As:
      Jacqueline Jill Collins (full name)
    2. Hometown:
      Los Angeles, California
    1. Date of Birth:
      October 4, 1941
    2. Place of Birth:
      London, England
    1. Website:
      http://www.jackiecollins.com
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  • Posted April 16, 2010

    Awesome Book!

    This book has it all: family drama, mystery, suspense, romance, and comedy. I love the whole series and all of Jackie Collins' books but this one is by far my favorite. Truly an absorbing saga that will draw you in and capture your heart and mind. This is the haunting life story of Gino Santengelo and his family. At times I cried and at times I laughed out loud; this story will stay with you for a long time. If you love long novels and saga series, I would also recommend: The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough, The Far Pavilions by M.M. Kaye, The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet, and the Clan of the Cave Bear series by Jean Auel.

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  • Posted December 5, 2008

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    You won't be able to put it down.

    I first read this book in the 11th grade. It took me three days and I would literally sit up at night with a flashlight underneath a blanket, so that I could read without my parents telling me to go to bed because I had school in the morning. Since then I've read the book at least 3 times and it's one of those stories that never gets old and always feels like the first time when you read it. I highly recommend this book to ANYONE, including people who don't like to read. I guarantee that this one is a page turner and you won't be able to put it down.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 28, 2000

    Chances will leave you screaming for more!!!

    I first became enraptured with Jackie Collins by picking up the book Chances. Through the years I've read it at least 3 times and I have just purchased it again because my library doesnt have it. Gino Santangelo, his daughter Lucky, the Bonnatti family...are all enmeshed in intrigue, spite, revenge, murder, lust and when you finish the book I swear it will leave you wanting more. I waited on baited breath for her other books in the Lucky Santangelo series to come out and have read every one. I just finished Dangerous Kiss and now I'm going to start over again from the best of the beginning, Chances. Fabulous, awesome and I cant wait for more!

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  • Posted August 31, 2011

    Highly Recommended

    I picked up this book not knowing it was a series...OMG, this novel has everything Love, Sex, Murder, Suspense..It really takes you inside the characters lives. I love this series.....BUY IT...

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  • Posted March 2, 2011

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    Waaay Too Long

    All I can say about this book is that it was WAAAY too long. 805 pgs is a bit ridiculous.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 6, 2008

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    Chances is my favorite all time book. The beginning of the Santangelo Saga takes the reader through a whirlwind of prostitution, gambling, bootlegging, and the rise of women in a man's world.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 9, 2008

    GREAT READ

    Boy I loved this book cant wait to read the rest of the Lucky saga's. Couldnt put it down!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 27, 2002

    the beginning of the santangelo saga...

    My boss loaned me this book and i couldn't put it down. I think that a life like Gino's is really interesting.I'm a huge Jackie Collins fan and I love her books, but I think this is one of her best ever.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 19, 2002

    AWESOME !!!

    I have been a fan of Jackie Collins for years. But, I have read 'Chances' eleven times and still counting! Gino is my fantasy man. And, Lucky and I are so much alike we could be sisters. The entire collection of 'Chances' is wonderful.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 11, 2001

    One of the best!

    I read this book for the first time ten years ago. I recently read it again, its still my favorite book. If you like gangster type stories, this is a must read... Page after page you will be kept in suspense!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 8, 2001

    Intriguing and enticing!!

    This book was one of those books that I could not put down. After reading this I read Lucky and Lady Boss and they were fascinating. I have never read so much in my life and this book made it happen!! Read all three if you can, but start with Chances.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 7, 2001

    Jackie Collins tour de force!!!

    Enter the world of Gino Santangelo, a handsome small time hood who rises to the top of the crime lords with respect, fame and fortune. The story will take you through Gino's childhood and adulthood. You will be amazed by the characters in this novel. Maria Santangelo (Gino's wife), Lucky Santangelo, (Gino's daughter), who makes every woman proud to be a woman. From Gino's family to the Bonatti's family you will be intrigued from the onset, with love betrayal and deception at an all time high. If you are ready to enter the world of wiseguys be prepared to be up a few late nights. It will be quite difficult for the reader to tear himself/herself away from this riveting piece of work.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 31, 2000

    The world's best book!

    'Chances' is the best book I have ever read by a long shot! I just finished it last month, and now I cannot wait to start the second book. This book is extremely suspenseful, grabbing your attention from the very first sentence and keeping it until the last. It's constant character/theme changes and never-ending problems, keeps you reading for hours at a time. It's over 800 pages and I read it in just over a week. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes soap-opera-esque plot-lines in a great novel, from an unbelievable author.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 16, 2000

    Amazing Book!!!

    This was the most amazing book I have ever read. After you read this book there's no way you won't read Lady Boss, Lucky, The Vendetta , and Dangerous Kiss. After reading only 2 of these books it feels like you know the people in the books like they're your friends. The only book in the world that's better is American Star.. and even then it's a close one!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 30, 2000

    OUTSTANDING BOOK TO READ

    WAS UNABLE TO PUT THIS BOOK DOWN, WAS READING TILL THREE AND FOUR IN THE MORNING

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 18, 2000

    Jackie strikes again

    Another CAN'T-PUT-IT-DOWN book by the great Jackie.

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