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.

The Barracks Thief
First edition (publ. Ecco Press)
AuthorTobias Wolff
GenreWar stories
Published1984
Media typePrint
Pages101 pages
ISBN0880010355
OCLC9853510

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]

References

  1. Fiction Winners, PEN/Faulkner Award


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