{"product_id":"whipping-boy-the-forty-year-search-for-my-twelve-year-old-bully-an-edgar-award-winner-paperback-3","title":"Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAllen Kurzweil\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Edgar(R) Award for Best Fact Crime\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe true account of one boy's lifelong search for his boarding-school bully.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEqual 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhipping Boy features two 8-page black-and-white photo inserts and 83 images throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKurzweil's quest for answers uncovers a story more bizarre and dangerous than he ever imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Childhood Nemesis: \u003c\/b\u003e In an exclusive Swiss boarding school, a ten-year-old boy's life is forever changed by the cruelties of his charismatic and sadistic roommate, Cesar Augustus.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAn Obsessive Quest: \u003c\/b\u003e What begins as a schoolboy grudge evolves into a forty-year international manhunt, taking the author from the gilded boardrooms of Park Avenue to the slums of Manila in search of answers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFake Royalty and Fraud: \u003c\/b\u003e The search for Cesar plunges Kurzweil into the surreal world of international con artists, including a monocled grand master of the Knights of Malta and a gang of faux royal swindlers.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLiterary True Crime: \u003c\/b\u003e Winner of the Edgar Award, this is more than a hunt for a bully; it's a profound and witty meditation on memory, trauma, and the bizarre ways a childhood menace can become a lifelong muse.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 19, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Edgar Allan Poe Awards (2016)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47404507431133,"sku":"9780062269492","price":22.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/wBbgqbfusm9780062269492.webp?v=1781209319","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/whipping-boy-the-forty-year-search-for-my-twelve-year-old-bully-an-edgar-award-winner-paperback-3","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}