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Title: Luck of the Draw
Author: William Scott Morrison
Narrator: William Scott Morrison
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-11-16
Publisher: Castalia Communications
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
From the baseball playgrounds of Little League in the conservative 50s, through the Summer of Love and the radical 60s, to the last days of the Vietnam War, Luck of the Draw is the story of four idealistic boomers coming of age while looking for love and trying to change the world. Theirs is the story of what it was like to be young during that turbulent time of Cold War paranoia, political assassinations, the fight for civil rights, counter-culture hippies, the sexual revolution, women's liberation, military conscription, televised war, massive anti-war protests, and of course, sex and drugs and the greatest rock 'n' roll.
Luck of the Draw is a companion novel to The Energy Caper, or Nixon in the Sky with Diamonds, in which the same characters live and love in an alternate universe where there was no Vietnam War, the Kennedys and Martin Luther King were not killed, and find themselves helping a "good" Richard Nixon in his fight to make America energy independent.
Members Reviews:
A Great Story that Captures a Piece of History
Scott Morrison is a great story teller and having listened to an audio version of this book I ordered the Kindle version as soon as I learned it was available. If you lived through the 1950s, and 70s, Luck of the Draw will resonate with your memories of the times and the social angst of the Vietnam War. If you are not old enough this book will acquaint you with a time and a culture thatâs hard to understand, unless you were there. Morrison captures the time and feelings with great characterization and great insight of an era that is gone, but should not be forgotten. If you listen to audio books you will want to add this one to your collection. Itâs rare for an author to narrate their own book and rarer still to do it with so much infectious enthusiasm and animation. In any venue, The Luck of the Draw is a pleasurable experience. Highly recommended.
A Timely Read
Timely, serious, humorous and entertaining, a human perspective on four wonderful characters, living in an era of unpopular war, a growing demand for human rights, and the beginning of the generation-long end of the so-called "good old days"--a process still playing out in the divided American presidential election of 2016.
Two young women beat the odds and fall in love with them
Morrison's well-paced novel has the humor and pathos of the 1960s. Two young men beat the odds and survive the Viet Nam War. Two young women beat the odds and fall in love with them. Morrison's novel shines a light on an era where just about anything and everything did happen. Music is often the medium that forges the path ahead.
Review by Bill McCausland. William Scott Morrison exquisitely constructed ...
Review by Bill McCausland. William Scott Morrison exquisitely constructed The Luck of the Draw. The novel elegantly tracts the developmental evolution of the characters that shows their complexities. A strong element of the book is also how Morrison handles conflict, which is extremely well balanced. One main character, Arty McGill, contracts with the military to be an MP in trade for not being sent to Vietnam, yet because he participates in his First Amendment right to speak of peace in from of an enormous crowd, the military sends him to Vietnam which seemingly violates his contract. He fights it along with his girlfriend who is in law school, but the military dismisses his attempts.
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Title: Luck of the Draw
Author: William Scott Morrison
Narrator: William Scott Morrison
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
Language: English
Release date: 07-11-16
Publisher: Castalia Communications
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
From the baseball playgrounds of Little League in the conservative 50s, through the Summer of Love and the radical 60s, to the last days of the Vietnam War, Luck of the Draw is the story of four idealistic boomers coming of age while looking for love and trying to change the world. Theirs is the story of what it was like to be young during that turbulent time of Cold War paranoia, political assassinations, the fight for civil rights, counter-culture hippies, the sexual revolution, women's liberation, military conscription, televised war, massive anti-war protests, and of course, sex and drugs and the greatest rock 'n' roll.
Luck of the Draw is a companion novel to The Energy Caper, or Nixon in the Sky with Diamonds, in which the same characters live and love in an alternate universe where there was no Vietnam War, the Kennedys and Martin Luther King were not killed, and find themselves helping a "good" Richard Nixon in his fight to make America energy independent.
Members Reviews:
A Great Story that Captures a Piece of History
Scott Morrison is a great story teller and having listened to an audio version of this book I ordered the Kindle version as soon as I learned it was available. If you lived through the 1950s, and 70s, Luck of the Draw will resonate with your memories of the times and the social angst of the Vietnam War. If you are not old enough this book will acquaint you with a time and a culture thatâs hard to understand, unless you were there. Morrison captures the time and feelings with great characterization and great insight of an era that is gone, but should not be forgotten. If you listen to audio books you will want to add this one to your collection. Itâs rare for an author to narrate their own book and rarer still to do it with so much infectious enthusiasm and animation. In any venue, The Luck of the Draw is a pleasurable experience. Highly recommended.
A Timely Read
Timely, serious, humorous and entertaining, a human perspective on four wonderful characters, living in an era of unpopular war, a growing demand for human rights, and the beginning of the generation-long end of the so-called "good old days"--a process still playing out in the divided American presidential election of 2016.
Two young women beat the odds and fall in love with them
Morrison's well-paced novel has the humor and pathos of the 1960s. Two young men beat the odds and survive the Viet Nam War. Two young women beat the odds and fall in love with them. Morrison's novel shines a light on an era where just about anything and everything did happen. Music is often the medium that forges the path ahead.
Review by Bill McCausland. William Scott Morrison exquisitely constructed ...
Review by Bill McCausland. William Scott Morrison exquisitely constructed The Luck of the Draw. The novel elegantly tracts the developmental evolution of the characters that shows their complexities. A strong element of the book is also how Morrison handles conflict, which is extremely well balanced. One main character, Arty McGill, contracts with the military to be an MP in trade for not being sent to Vietnam, yet because he participates in his First Amendment right to speak of peace in from of an enormous crowd, the military sends him to Vietnam which seemingly violates his contract. He fights it along with his girlfriend who is in law school, but the military dismisses his attempts.