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

  • 061 - A Stalker With Privilages

    Duration: 03min
  • 062 - The Kentuckian

    Duration: 07min
  • 063 - The Duke Of Deception

    Duration: 05min
  • 064 - The Predicate Felon

    Duration: 09min
  • 065 - Part 7

    Duration: 46s
  • 066 - A Good Suspect

    Duration: 07min
  • 067 - My Bodyguard

    Duration: 06min
  • 068 - The Shill

    Duration: 06min
  • 069 - The Sighting

    Duration: 04min
  • 070 - The Silent Service

    Duration: 03min
  • 071 - Mug Shot

    Duration: 05min
  • 072 - Part 8

    Duration: 33s
  • 073 - The Mongoose

    Duration: 10min
  • 074 - Two Richards

    Duration: 04min
  • 075 - What Quilty Wants, Quilty Gets

    Duration: 11min
  • 076 - Conspiracy

    Duration: 07min
  • 077 - Criminal Things

    Duration: 10min
  • 078 - Part 9

    Duration: 29s
  • 079 - Injunction Lifted

    Duration: 04min
  • 080 - Find Someone In Your Network

    Duration: 05min
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