Tampa

By Alissa Nutting

Book Overview

"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

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062280589
• ISBN13: 9780062280589
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

Such an adrenaline read!

Nutting is not afraid to cross boundaries, this book will make you feel uncomfortable, grossed out, and appalled. That said, makes Nutting a great author. You must add this book to your reading list.

Not for the faint at heart

The subject matter alone is hard to swallow but I cannot deny that this book was actually really good.