Whipping Boy - The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully

Winner of the Edgarr 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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Allen Kurzweil, Kurzweil Allen
• Verlag: Harper Collins Usa
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.01.2016
• EAN: 9780062269492
• ISBN: 978-0-06-226949-2
• Seiten: 320
• Abmessung: 135 mm x 203 mm x 18 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Zeitgeschichte (1945 bis 1989); Sachbuch > Politik, Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft > Biographien, Autobiographien; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Autobiography: writers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Life Stages / Teenagers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Criminals & Outlaws, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Abuse / Child Abuse, HISTORY: Essays, LAW: Criminal Law / General, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS: Bullying, TRUE CRIME: White Collar Crime, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs