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A01=Allen Kurzweil
Author_Allen Kurzweil
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=NL-BG
Category=NL-BM
COP=United States
Discount=15
Format=BB
Format_Hardback
HMM=230
IMPN=Harper
ISBN13=9780062269485
Language_English
PA=Available
PD=20150120
POP=New York
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
PUB=HarperCollins Publishers Inc
SMM=27
Subject=Biography: General
Subject=Memoirs
WG=530
WMM=153

Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search For My Twelve-Year-Old Bully

Hardback | English

By (author): Allen Kurzweil

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 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. See more
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Product Details
  • Format: Hardback
  • Weight: 530g
  • Dimensions: 153 x 230 x 27mm
  • Publication Date: 20 Jan 2015
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Publication City/Country: New York, United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780062269485
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