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Hardcover Return to Ithaca: A Confessional Novel Book

ISBN: 0312874464

ISBN13: 9780312874469

Return to Ithaca: A Confessional Novel

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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...

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A Complex Novel

Mr. Eickhoff's "Return to Ithaca" is a hard look at how a war hero is regarded when he returns home. I am not a Vietnam veteran, but I can say that I felt the agony of what Henry Morgan went through upon his return and the sense of futility that seems to control his emotions. This is a deep, emotional novel, a dark look into the inner man going through an impossible emotional labyrinth in trying to find the person he was before he left for the War. The best war novel to appear in years. Comparable to Mailer's "The Naked and the Dead" but with more intensity than Mailer managed. This is without doubt the work of a tortured genius.
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