The Second Tour: 3rd Edition - Softcover

Rizzuti, Mr. Terry P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692797181 ISBN 13: 9780692797181

Publisher: Terry P. Rizzuti, 2016

Synopsis

The Second Tour is the story of a murdered Vietnamese girl who comes back to haunt the narrator, a low-level combat Marine.

About this title

About the Author

Terry P. Rizzuti was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma, in 1946, to second-generation Italian-Americans. He spent much of his early youth in Rome, New York, and surrounding towns before moving back to Oklahoma in 1965. He joined the Marine Corps in 1966 and served a tour in the northern I-Corps area of South Vietnam as a "grunt" from October 1966 to November 1967 assigned to the 2nd Squad, 2nd Platoon of Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 26th Marine Regiment, 5th Marine Division, occasionally attached to the 1st or 3rd Divisions. He was awarded the Purple Heart for shrapnel wounds received on May 2, 1967. Rizzuti graduated with an English Literature degree from the University of Oklahoma (OU) in 1977, and then completed two years of graduate-level literature studies. He worked in various OU positions between 1980 and 1996, and helped found OU's Vietnam Memorial Scholarship Association. He is a life member of The American Legion, The Veterans of Foreign Wars, The Disabled American Veterans, and The Khe Sanh Veterans Association. Currently, Rizzuti is a writer living in Estes Park, Colorado. The Second Tour, his first novel, was begun in 1984. He considers it a work in progress for as long as he's alive. In fact, there is a 4th Edition available subtitled Soul Injury that is much more up-to-date.

From the Back Cover

Same as below: About the Author

From the Inside Flap

PRAISE FOR THE SECOND TOUR

"This is truth masquerading as fiction. Viet Nam is the scene. The players are members of Second Battalion of the 26th Marine Regiment. The Second Tour is that period of time between two realities, the then and the now. The secret is to find a way to accept one reality and live with another. Mr. Rizzuti has described his time in Viet Nam very accurately. It's one hell of a story. I hope he has worked over his First Tour and has it behind him. It is a heavy burden to carry alone. Welcome home!"

-- Midwest BookReview


"This is one of those rare books that only by completing it and contemplating it can the reader internalize it and make it one's own. If someone lived in or grew up through these turbulent times then the style might be strikingly reminiscent of Procul Harum's undeclared anthem of the 60's, 'A Whiter Shade of Pale.'"

-- AllBooks Review

Edition details

• Publisher: Terry P. Rizzuti
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0692797181
• ISBN 13: 9780692797181
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 289