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."-Publisher's statement. Tampa is a sexually explicit, virtuosically satirical, American Psycho-esque rendering of a monstrously misplaced but undeterrable desire. She deceives everyone, is close to no one, and cares little for anything but her pleasure. So many great charactersFord, Jack, the poet who has a crush on Celeste at the beginning of the novel. She’s revolting as a predator and, really, a human being. Celeste is a well-written, effective character. In slaking her sexual thirst, Celeste Price is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation, a monstress of pure motivation. Tampa by Alissa Nutting I have so many thoughts. 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. Celeste has chosen and lured the charmingly modest Jack Patrick into her web. In this novel, "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.
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