![]() ![]() One of the main characters-sort of the narrator that’s a structural oddity I’ll get to shortly-spends his formative years in the Pacific Northwest (Seattle) and is the product of a broken marriage who went on to enlist in the Army in the Vietnam era, all of which is true of Wolff. ![]() I’m not sure if he experienced incidents very close to what is depicted in The Barracks Thief, but certainly in broad terms there is overlap with his life. Wolff takes many of his stories from real life. Which makes sense, since Wolff is primarily a short story writer. So it’s pretty short even for a novella, more like a moderately long short story. The Barracks Thief is a novella of about a hundred pages with normal size font and spacing I suspect it would be more like 75. ![]()
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