Dec 19, 2009

The Barracks Thief | The Barracks Thief

At a glance:

Author: Tobias Wolff
First Published: 1984
Type of Plot: Moral
Time of Work: The mid-1960’s to the mid-1970’s
Setting: Seattle, Washington, and Fort Bragg, North Carolina
Principal Characters: Philip Bishop, Keith Bishop, Guy Bishop, Lewis, Hubbard
Genres: Long fiction
Subjects: 1960’s
Locales: Fort Bragg, NC

The Novel

Tobias Wolff’s novella-length The Barracks Thief reads more like a long short story than a novel. Consisting of seven brief chapters, it seems at first to be a simple and unassuming story with little or no thematic significance; however, as is often the case with novellas, the more one thinks about the work, the more psychologically and morally complex becomes this exploration of the motivations of three inarticulate young men caught up in the demands of masculinity.

Although the story begins with the teenage brothers Keith and Philip Bishop’s...

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The Barracks Thief | The Barracks Thief

At a glance:

The Novel

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