![]() ![]() ![]() In Alissa Nutting's novel Tampa, Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of a 14-year-old student. "In this sly and salacious work, Nutting forces us to take a long, unflinching look at a deeply disturbed mind, and more significantly, at society's often troubling relationship with female beauty." -San Francisco Chronicle Laced with black humor and crackling sexualized prose, Alissa Nutting s Tampa is a grand, seriocomic examination of the want behind student / teacher affairs and a scorching literary debut." ![]() She deceives everyone, is close to no one, and cares little for anything but her pleasure.Tampa is a sexually explicit, virtuosically satirical, American Psycho esque rendering of a monstrously misplaced but undeterrable desire. In slaking her sexual thirst, Celeste Price is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation, a monstress of pure motivation. Jack is enthralled and in awe of his eighth-grade teacher, and, most importantly, willing to accept Celeste s terms for a secret relationship car rides after dark, rendezvous at Jack s house while his single father works the late shift, and body-slamming erotic encounters in Celeste s empty classroom. In Alissa Nutting s novel Tampa, Celeste Price, a smoldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of a 14-year-old student.Celeste has chosen and lured the charmingly modest Jack Patrick into her web. ![]()
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