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Whipping boy : the forty-year search for my twelve-year-old bully

Kurzweil, Allen. (Author).
Book  - 2015
813.6 Kur
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  • ISBN: 0062269488
  • ISBN: 9780062269485
  • Physical Description 291 pages : illustrations, maps
  • Edition First edition.
  • Publisher New York, NY : Harper, [2015]

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Whipping Boy : The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
Whipping Boy : The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
by Kurzweil, Allen
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Whipping Boy : The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully


Winner of the Edgar® Award for Best Fact Crime The true account of one boy's lifelong search for his boarding-school bully. Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweil's search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augustus. The obsessive inquiry, which spans some forty years, takes Kurzweil all over the world, from a Swiss boarding school (where he endures horrifying cruelty) to the slums of Manila, from the Park Avenue boardroom of the world's largest law firm to a federal prison camp in Southern California. While hunting down his tormentor, Kurzweil encounters an improbable cast of characters that includes an elocution teacher with ill-fitting dentures, a gang of faux royal swindlers, a crime investigator "with paper in his blood," and a onocled grand master of the Knights of Malta. Yet for all its global exoticism and comic exuberance, Kurzweil's riveting account is, at its core, a heartfelt and suspenseful narrative about the "parallel lives" of a victim and his abuser. A scrupulously researched work of nonfiction that renders a childhood menace into an unlikely muse, Whipping Boy is much more than a tale of karmic retribution; it is a poignant meditation on loss, memory, and mourning, a surreal odyssey born out of suffering, nourished by rancor, tempered by wit, and resolved, unexpectedly, in a breathtaking act of personal courage. Whipping Boy features two 8-page black-and-white photo inserts and 83 images throughout.