Three of A Kind Author:John Moore John Moore?s second novel, Three of a Kind, captures a portrait of growing up in the mythical, magical 1960?s ? seen through narrative snapshots of the character Jack Morrison, over a period of a dozen years. In three separate but related sections, each featuring Jack Morrison and an assortment of peripherals, we follow the coming of age ... more »of a young adolescent ? from paperboy, to soldier to cab-driver. The action takes place in North Vancouver, also on the brink of change from a sleepy suburb to a lively urban centre. In the first section, ?Castro's Paperboy?, we meet Jack as a young paperboy during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Jack is still in public school and has recently lost his father. He learns about the world from both the headlines of the papers he delivers and the people in the houses on his route. In the second section, ?Saturday Soldiers?, the novel leaps ahead to the mid-Sixties, to the time when Jack and his best friend join the Canadian Army reserves while waiting for ?the Summer of Love?. Their military antics parody the escalation of American involvement in Vietnam. The final segment, ?Code 2?, takes place in 1970. ?The Now Generation? is almost history and the friends who turned on, tuned and in dropped out find themselves driving cabs on a dangerous urban graveyard shift, waiting to go ?Code 2? (off-duty). In Three of a Kind, John Moore's dark humour, tight dramatic plotting and sharp ear for street-talk delivers an engaging narrative mural of a young man?s initiation into life and love during a memorable era.« less