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Media type Print Originally published 1984 Genre Fiction OCLC 9853510 | 3.9/5 Goodreads Pages 101 pages ISBN 0880010355 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Awards PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Similar Tobias Wolff books, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners, Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Barracks Thief is a novella by Tobias Wolff, first published in 1984. The story concerns paratroopers in training during the time of the Vietnam war.
Readers of Wolff's memoir In Pharaoh's Army will note that the author himself trained as a paratrooper and served in Vietnam.
Awards & Reception
The Barracks Thief won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1985.
References
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