Whipping Boy

  • Author: Allen Kurzweil
  • Narrator: Allen Kurzweil
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA
  • Duration: 8:48:52
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Synopsis

The true account of one man's lifelong search for his boarding-school bully

Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles 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 tracking down his tormentor, the author 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 monocled 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 and richly illustrated 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.

Chapters

  • 021 - Back To School

    Duration: 07min
  • 022 - Mrs Senn Remembers

    Duration: 05min
  • 023 - The Realistic Institute

    Duration: 03min
  • 024 - Darwin and Dickens

    Duration: 03min
  • 025 - The Tank

    Duration: 05min
  • 026 - False Positives

    Duration: 05min
  • 027 - The Manila Folder

    Duration: 05min
  • 028 - White Owl Cigar Box

    Duration: 03min
  • 029 - Part 3

    Duration: 55s
  • 030 - Throne For A Loop

    Duration: 07min
  • 031 - Fear

    Duration: 08min
  • 032 - Kismet On Jebel Haroun

    Duration: 03min
  • 033 - Three Emails

    Duration: 02min
  • 034 - These Guys Conned Everybody

    Duration: 05min
  • 035 - Thundersnow

    Duration: 04min
  • 036 - Thirty-Two North

    Duration: 06min
  • 037 - The Raised-Letter Carte de Visite

    Duration: 03min
  • 038 - Defendants Memorandum In Aid Of Sentencing

    Duration: 07min
  • 039 - Ten Thousand Documents Lost In The Mail

    Duration: 03min
  • 040 - Prints Of The City

    Duration: 02min
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