Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully

by Allen Kurzweil

Book Overview

Winner of the Edgar(R) Award for Best Fact Crime

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062269488
• ISBN13: 9780062269485
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Harper
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.5"