{"product_id":"chance-9780743289290","title":"Chance","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize winner Kem Nunn and \"principal heir to the tradition of Raymond Chandler and Nathanael West\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e)--an intense psychological suspense novel about a San Francisco neuropsychiatrist who becomes sexually involved with a woman suffering from multiple personality disorder, whose pathological ex-husband is an Oakland homicide detective.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA dark tale involving psychiatric mystery, sexual obsession, fractured identities, and terrifyingly realistic violence--\u003ci\u003eChance\u003c\/i\u003e is set amid the back streets of California's Bay Area, far from the cleansing breezes of the ocean. Dr. Eldon Chance, a neuropsychiatrist, is a man primed for spectacular ruin. Into Dr. Chance's blighted life walks Jaclyn Blackstone, the abused, attractive wife of an Oakland homicide detective, a violent and jealous man. Jaclyn appears to be suffering from a dissociative identity disorder. In time, Chance will fall into bed with her--or is it with her alter ego, the voracious and volatile Jackie Black? The not-so-good doctor, despite his professional training, isn't quite sure--and thereby hangs his fascination with her. Meanwhile, Chance also meets a young man named D, a self-styled, streetwise philosopher skilled in the art of the blade. It is around this trio of unique and dangerous individuals that long guarded secrets begin to unravel, obsessions grow, and the doctor's carefully arranged life comes to the brink of implosion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmid San Francisco's fluid, ever-shifting fog, in the cool, gray city of love, Dr. Chance will at last be forced to live up to his name. \u003ci\u003eChance\u003c\/i\u003e is a twisted, harrowing, and impossible-to-put-down head trip through the fun house of fate, mesmerizing until the very last page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/09\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780743289290\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/22\/2015 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kem Nunn","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42095630287029,"sku":"9780743289290","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_cd2d028a-fc22-4b3a-b009-2e596b5fc384.jpg?v=1651588451","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/chance-9780743289290","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}