Whipping Boy
- Autor: Allen Kurzweil
- Narrador: Allen Kurzweil
- Editor: HarperCollins USA
- Duración: 8:48:52
Sinopsis
The true account of one man's lifelong search for his boarding-school bully
Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles 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 tracking down his tormentor, the author 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 and richly illustrated 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.
Capítulos
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081 - Reunion
Duración: 02min -
082 - House Photo
Duración: 08min -
083 - Attack Or Retreat
Duración: 12min -
084 - A Few More Meetings
Duración: 11min -
085 - The Tasting
Duración: 05min -
086 - Part 10
Duración: 01min -
087 - This And That
Duración: 06min -
088 - Annus Horribilis
Duración: 12min -
089 - Sabbatical
Duración: 05min -
090 - Not By Any Stretch Of The Imagination
Duración: 11min -
091 - Fear, Disgust, Pity, Remorse
Duración: 03min -
092 - Defend The 10 Year Old
Duración: 05min -
093 - And I Was Jesus Christ
Duración: 07min -
094 - There Was No Trust
Duración: 08min -
095 - There Is No Time
Duración: 04min -
096 - Omega
Duración: 02min -
097 - Credits
Duración: 56s -
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Duración: 01min