Triple Boy Author:Dale Bick Carlson Paul had been losing time since he was six. But now at sixteen it was growing worse. Whole days seemed to be missing from his life. According to his friends, he did things he could not remember doing at all. He was on the baseball team, but he didn't know why; he had never been good at sports. he had a girl friend. But he didn't know why she lik... more »ed him and felt she expected things from him that he could not give. And his wood-carvings, which he loved to do, were always being worked on by somebody else. What was happening to him? He needed to know. And yet he was afraid to find out.
Paul's mother was an artist, a good one, but she was also an alcoholic and no help. His father, from whom his mother was
divorced, expected more of him than he was able to give now. He would be scornful of the kinds of problems Paul had.
And deep within, Paul never lost the burden of his greatest problem of all; the fact that his younger brother, three at the time, had been hit by a train and killed when Paul was six. Paul had always felt that he could have saved Stevie if he had just run faster.
Paul's basic problems stemmed from Stevie's death and his parents' separation. But his immediate problems came from the fact that not only he, Paul, inhabited his body, but two others as well: Mike and George. Only when all three could become one, could Paul stop losing time. But first Paul had to face himself as he was--no easy task.« less