Whipping Boy
- Autor: Allen Kurzweil
- Narrador: Allen Kurzweil
- Editora: HarperCollins USA
- Duração: 8:48:52
Sinopse
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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041 - Part 4
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042 - The Mark
Duração: 21min -
043 - Green Fingers
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044 - The Performance Guaranty
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045 - The Bank Letter
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046 - A Spanking
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047 - In Default
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048 - Here's A Piece Of Free Advice
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049 - Part 5
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050 - Coming Up For Air
Duração: 07min -
051 - The Largest Law Firm In The World
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052 - The Colonel In The Boardroom With The Fountain Pen
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053 - Ultimatum
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054 - Inconvenience And Misunderstandings
Duração: 10min -
055 - Part 6
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056 - Barclays Vs Barclay
Duração: 02min -
057 - Lompoc and Aiglon, A Comparative Analysis
Duração: 04min -
058 - Pizza And Spears
Duração: 02min -
059 - True Lies
Duração: 04min -
060 - Data Mining
Duração: 04min