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

  • 081 - Reunion

    Duration: 02min
  • 082 - House Photo

    Duration: 08min
  • 083 - Attack Or Retreat

    Duration: 12min
  • 084 - A Few More Meetings

    Duration: 11min
  • 085 - The Tasting

    Duration: 05min
  • 086 - Part 10

    Duration: 01min
  • 087 - This And That

    Duration: 06min
  • 088 - Annus Horribilis

    Duration: 12min
  • 089 - Sabbatical

    Duration: 05min
  • 090 - Not By Any Stretch Of The Imagination

    Duration: 11min
  • 091 - Fear, Disgust, Pity, Remorse

    Duration: 03min
  • 092 - Defend The 10 Year Old

    Duration: 05min
  • 093 - And I Was Jesus Christ

    Duration: 07min
  • 094 - There Was No Trust

    Duration: 08min
  • 095 - There Is No Time

    Duration: 04min
  • 096 - Omega

    Duration: 02min
  • 097 - Credits

    Duration: 56s
  • sample-265

    Duration: 01min
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