Whipping boy : the forty-year search for my twelve-year-old bully
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Published
New York, NY : HarperCollins, 2015., Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015].
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Status
Uintah County Library - General NonFiction - Second Floor
092 KURZWEIL
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092 KURZWEIL
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Published
New York, NY : HarperCollins, 2015., Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2015].
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Notes
Description
"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 paperin 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 ofsuffering, 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"--,Provided by publisher.
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"From the acclaimed author of A CASE OF CURIOSITIES, Allen Kurzweil's stranger-than-fiction "investigative memoir", detailing his 40-year-search for his boarding school bully who tied him up at the age of twelve and whipped him to the soundtrack of JesusChrist Superstar, and who went on to lead a mad-cap life of international crime and financial fraud"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Kurzweil, A. (2015). Whipping boy: the forty-year search for my twelve-year-old bully (First edition.). HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kurzweil, Allen. 2015. Whipping Boy: The Forty-year Search for My Twelve-year-old Bully. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Kurzweil, Allen. Whipping Boy: The Forty-year Search for My Twelve-year-old Bully HarperCollins, 2015.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Kurzweil, Allen. Whipping Boy: The Forty-year Search for My Twelve-year-old Bully First edition., HarperCollins, 2015.
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