02987cam a2200349 4500 468431489 TxAuBib 20201029120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780062269508 006226950X B00DB3A2VU Amazon 1de4d605-c557-42b6-800c-3e659b09fa69 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1330722 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kurzweil, Allen. Whipping Boy [Libby eBook] : The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully. Harper, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 17MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><strong>Winner of the Edgar® Award for Best Fact Crime</strong></p> <p>The true account of one boy's lifelong search for his boarding-school bully.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Whipping Boy features two 8-page black-and-white photo inserts and 83 images throughout.</p>. Biography & Autobiography. Family & Relationships. True Crime. Nonfiction. Media Type: eBook. Edgar Allan Poe Award. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2020-12-28 22:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/whipping-boy-1de4d6?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/whipping-boy-1de4d6?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/whipping-boy-1de4d6?.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)