{"product_id":"whipping-boy-the-forty-year-search-for-my-twelve-year-old-bully-0062269496","title":"Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0062269496\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Kurzweil, Allen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the Edgar Award for Best Fact CrimeThe true account of one boys lifelong search for his boarding-school bully.Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweils 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 worlds 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 paper in his blood, and a onocled grand master of the Knights of Malta. Yet for all its global exoticism and comic exuberance, Kurzweils 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.Whipping Boy features two 8-page black-and-white photo inserts and 83 images throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51607485088032,"sku":"NEW0062269496","price":13.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61JkcejziaL.jpg?v=1778693160","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/whipping-boy-the-forty-year-search-for-my-twelve-year-old-bully-0062269496","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}