Return To Ithaca: A Confessional Novel

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Tor Publishing Group, Apr 1, 2007 - Fiction - 512 pages

At the height of the Vietnam War, twenty-seven members of a U.S. special elite team were dropped into North Vietnam to fight alongside the Rands and Montagnards against the communist regime. Their job was to ambush troops along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, one of the most dangerous of the war. Of the twenty-seven men who went in, only three made it back.

One of them is Henry Morgan a modern-day Odysseus struggling to find a way of returning from the Vietnam War. Now living in a monastery, he has turned his back on the world that turned its back on him. But times change and there is a need for a man like Morgan again. A man who has made his voyage. An Odysseus who can bring order to a chaotic world.



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Contents

Of Special Note
9
The Past as Preface
13
Invocation
17
Ithaca
21
The Journey
87
The Returu
367
Copyright

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Return To Ithaca
Randy Lee Eickhoff
No preview available - 2001
Return To Ithaca
Randy Lee Eickhoff
No preview available - 2002

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About the author (2007)

Randy Lee Eickhoff holds several graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. in Classics. He lives in El Paso, Texas where he works on translations in several languages, poetry, plays, and novels of which two have been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His translation of Ireland's national epic is now a text in not only schools in the United States, but countries overseas as well. His nonfiction work on the Tigua Indians, Exiled, won the Southwest History Award. He has been inducted into the Paso Del Norte Writers Hall of Fame, the local chapter of the Texas Institute of Arts and Letters. He spends his time in El Paso, Ireland, and Italy, lecturing on Dante and The Ulster Cycle.

Bibliographic information

TitleReturn To Ithaca: A Confessional Novel
AuthorRandy Lee Eickhoff
PublisherTor Publishing Group, 2007
ISBN1429973455, 9781429973458
Length512 pages
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Fiction / War & Military
  
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