The Barracks Thief

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.

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Novella - Tobias Wolff - 1984 - Paratroopers - Vietnam war

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Readers of Wolff's memoir In Pharaoh's Army will note that the author himself trained as a paratrooper and served in Vietnam.

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The Barracks Thief won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1985.

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PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction - 1985

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