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Kurzweil, Allen.
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Kurzweil, Allen.
Viana, Cesar Augusto.
Aiglon College (Geneva, Switzerland)
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Kurzweil, Allen.
Kurzweil, Allen.
Viana, Cesar Augusto.
Aiglon College (Geneva, Switzerland)
Bullying -- Biography.
Authors, American -- Biography.
Aggressiveness in children -- Biography.
Interpersonal conflict in children -- Biography.
Boarding school students -- Switzerland -- Biography.
Fatherless families -- Biography.
Novelists, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
Journalists -- United States -- 21st century -- Biography.
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Whipping boy : the forty-year search for my twelve-year-old bully / Allen Kurzweil.
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Kurzweil, Allen.
Harper, [2015]
Call #:
302
.343
K96w
Subjects
Kurzweil, Allen.
Viana, Cesar Augusto.
Aiglon College (Geneva, Switzerland)
Bullying -- Biography.
Authors, American -- Biography.
Aggressiveness in children -- Biography.
Interpersonal conflict in children -- Biography.
Boarding school students -- Switzerland -- Biography.
Fatherless families -- Biography.
Novelists, American -- 21st century -- Biography.
Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
Journalists -- United States -- 21st century -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780062269485 (hc.)
Edition:
First edition.
Description:
291 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"The true account of one boy's lifelong search for his boarding-school bully. Childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles author Allen Kurzweil's search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augusto Viana. 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. Aiglon College is an exclusive co-educational English-style boarding school in the village of Chesières, near the ski resort of Villars, in Switzerland. 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 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 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. Allen Kurzweil is a journalist and the author of A Case Of Curiosities, a novel"--Provided by publisher.
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Memoirs.
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