000			01060nam a2200157 4500
020			_a9780062376886
024			_a883371926
050			_aPS3573.O558
082			_a813.54
100	1		_aTobias Wolff
245	1		_aThe Barracks Thief
260			_bHarper Collins
300			_a112 pages
520			_aThe Barracks Thief is the story of three young paratroopers waiting to be shipped out to Vietnam. Brought together one sweltering afternoon to stand guard over an ammunition dump threatened by a forest fire, they discover in each other an unexpected capacity for recklessness and violence. Far from being alarmed by this discovery, they are exhilarated by it; they emerge from their common danger full of confidence in their own manhood and in the bond of friendship they have formed. This confidence is shaken when a series of thefts occur. The author embraces the perspectives of both the betrayer and the betrayed, forcing us to participate in lives that we might otherwise condemn, and to recognize the kinship of those lives to our own.
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