Tampa - by Alissa Nutting (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><P>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. 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 slaking her sexual thirst, Celeste Price is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation, a monstress of pure motivation. 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. 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."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>"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</strong></p><p>In Alissa Nutting's novel <em>Tampa</em>, 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.<br/> <br/>Celeste has chosen and lured the charmingly modest Jack Patrick into her web. 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 slaking her sexual thirst, Celeste Price is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation, a monstress of pure motivation. She deceives everyone, is close to no one, and cares little for anything but her pleasure.<br/> <br/><em>Tampa</em> is a sexually explicit, virtuosically satirical, American Psycho-esque rendering of a monstrously misplaced but undeterrable desire. Laced with black humor and crackling sexualized prose, Alissa Nutting's <em>Tampa</em> is a grand, seriocomic examination of the want behind student / teacher affairs and a scorching literary debut.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>Celeste Price is twenty-six years old, beautiful, smart, married to a handsome man with money, and starting a new job as a junior high school teacher in suburban Tampa. Yet she harbors a dark secret. She is driven by a singular sexual obsession--fourteen-year-old boys. As the school year begins, Celeste has chosen and seduced the naive Jack Patrick, a quiet, thoughtful boy in awe of his teacher. But when her lustful frenzy begins to spiral out of control, the insatiable Celeste bypasses each hurdle with swift thinking and shameless determination.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"...A highly diverting read...Ms. Nutting lands it."--New York Times<br><br>"A brilliant commentary on sex and society."--Cosmopolitan<br><br>"A deliriously enjoyable, absolutely shocking book--a morality tale that tempts and taunts readers to succumb to every kind of immorality."--BOMB<br><br>"A work of serious ambition, both literary and moral. It's also laced with dark, sometimes savage humor and juicy riffs on consumer culture and its twin obsessions, youth and beauty."--Cleveland Plain Dealer<br><br>"Bold and fascinatingly transgressive...Tampa may be the new American Psycho."--MSN Entertainment<br><br>"Completely entertaining."--Salon<br><br>"Gutsy."--TIME<br><br>"Impeccably written, full of smart cultural observations, and no small amount of wit...A very bold book."--Daily Beast<br><br>"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<br><br>"It's as riveting as it is disturbing."--NewYorkmagazine.com's Vulture<br><br>"Smart and biting."--New York Journal of Books<br><br>"Tampa is one of the most shocking books I have read; it's also one of the most mesmerizing and surprising. Alissa Nutting has written a stunning, brutal book."--Shelf Awareness<br><br>"Tampa takes on a very serious and disturbing subject with such flair and dark humor and bawdy sexual energy that Nutting is sure to become a member in the small club of authors who turns risky writing into high art."--Tin House<br><br>"The writing is often excellent, hilariously dark, and mean...Reading about [Celeste] was honestly disturbing and fun."--Entertainment Weekly<br><br>"TAMPA is one of the most shocking books I have read; it's also one of the most mesmerizing and surprising. I expected to be disturbed, even appalled; what I did not expect in this story of a female teacher fixated on 14-year-old boys was lyricism and black humor."--Marilyn Dahl, Shelf Awareness<br>
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