Whipping Boy : The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully eAudiobook MP3
by Allen Kurzweil
Narrated by Allen Kurzweil
eAudiobook MP3
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Winner of the Edgar(R) 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 chroniclesprize-winning author Allen Kurzweil's search for his twelve-year-old nemesis,a bully named Cesar Augustus. The obsessive inquiry, which spans some fortyyears, takes Kurzweil all over the world, from a Swiss boarding school (where heendures horrifying cruelty) to the slums of Manila, from the Park Avenue boardroomof 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'sriveting account is, at its core, a heartfelt and suspenseful narrative about the "parallellives" of a victim and his abuser.
A scrupulously researched work of nonfiction that renders a childhood menaceinto an unlikely muse, Whipping Boy is much more than a tale of karmic retribution; itis a poignant meditation on loss, memory, and mourning, a surreal odyssey born outof suffering, nourished by rancor, tempered by wit, and resolved, unexpectedly, in abreathtaking act of personal courage.
Whipping Boy features two 8-page black-and-white photo inserts and 83 images throughout.
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- Run-time:8 hours 48 mins
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- Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Publication Date:20/01/2015
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- ISBN:9780062308573
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eAudio Download - Immediately Available
- Format:eAudiobook MP3
- Run-time:8 hours 48 mins
- File size:726.09MB
- Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Publication Date:20/01/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9780062308573