![]() ![]() ![]() It’s still a bit scrappy, and parts of it work better than others, but there’s a fair amount there that I’m still pleased with. A collection of anecdotes, stories, facts, and activities relating to chance, luck, magic, witchcraft, and. I threw in Destiny, which is the opposite of chance, to make a more resonant title and magic, because that’s an attempt to defy the randomness of chance and luck and to give the whole thing some kind of structure I threaded a re-telling of the Oedipus legend through it. Chance, Luck, and Destiny Hardcover 1 Oct. A sort of scrap-book was an obvious solution, and since I’m also hopeless at research it was much easier for me to use fiction and verse to illustrate some of the points. I’m very interested in the subject, but not enough of a coherent thinker to do a straight treatise. ![]() My UK editor, Joanna Goldsworthy, asked if I’d like to do a short non-fiction book about chance and luck. by Robert Westall (Greenwillow) nonfIctIon: Chance, Luck and Destiny, by Peter Dickinson (Little, Brown) nonfIctIon Honor Books: Watching the Wild Apes. Chance, Luck and Destiny Boston Globe-Hornbook Prize for Non-fiction: Winner About the BookĬollection of original material, prose and verse, fact and fiction, on the themes of the title. : Chance, Luck, and Destiny (9780316184281) by Dickinson, Peter and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. ![]()
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