The Barracks Thief
The Barracks Thief is a novella by American writer Tobias Wolff, first published in 1984. The story concerns paratroopers in training during the time of the Vietnam war.
 First edition (publ. Ecco Press) | |
| Author | Tobias Wolff |
|---|---|
| Genre | War stories |
| Published | 1984 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 101 pages |
| ISBN | 0880010355 |
| OCLC | 9853510 |
Readers of Wolff's memoir In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War (1994) will note that the author trained as a paratrooper and served in Vietnam.
Reception and awards
The Barracks Thief won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1985.[1]
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