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Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She is attractive. She drives a red Corvette. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed and devoted to her. But Celeste has a secret. She has a singular sexual obsession - fourteen-year-old boys. It is a craving she pursues with sociopathic meticulousness and forethought.
Within weeks of her first term at a new school, Celeste has lured the charmingly modest Jack Patrick into her web - car rides after dark, rendezvous at Jack's house while his single father works the late shift, and body-slamming encounters in Celeste's empty classroom between periods. It is bliss.
Celeste must constantly confront the forces threatening their affair - the perpetual risk of exposure, Jack's father's own attraction to her, and the ticking clock as Jack leaves innocent boyhood behind. But the insatiable Celeste is remorseless. She deceives everyone, is close to no one and cares little for anything but her pleasure.
With crackling, stampeding, rampantly sexualized prose, Tampa is a grand, satirical, serio-comic examination of desire and a scorching literary debut.
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."..A highly diverting read...Ms. Nutting lands it."----New York Times
It's as riveting as it is disturbing."----NewYorkmagazine.com's Vulture
"Completely entertaining."----Salon
"Gutsy."----TIME
"Smart and biting."----New York Journal of Books
"A brilliant commentary on sex and society."----Cosmopolitan
"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
It s as riveting as it is disturbing. ----NewYorkmagazine.com's Vulture"
Completely entertaining. ----Salon"
Gutsy. ----TIME"
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It's as riveting as it is disturbing."----NewYorkmagazine.com's Vulture
"Completely entertaining."----Salon
"Gutsy."----TIME
"Smart and biting."----New York Journal of Books
"A brilliant commentary on sex and society."----Cosmopolitan
"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
It s as riveting as it is disturbing. ----NewYorkmagazine.com's Vulture"
Completely entertaining. ----Salon"
Gutsy. ----TIME"
Tampa by Alissa Nutting: American Psycho meets Lolita in this outrageously dark and funny debut novel.
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- Publication date2014
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Book Description Condition: New. Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She is attractive. She drives a red Corvette. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed and devoted to her. But Celeste has a secret. She has a singular sexual obsession - fourteen-year-old boys. It is a craving she pursues with sociopathic meticulousness and forethought. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214. . 2014. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # V9780571303335
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Book Description Condition: New. Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She is attractive. She drives a red Corvette. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed and devoted to her. But Celeste has a secret. She has a singular sexual obsession - fourteen-year-old boys. It is a craving she pursues with sociopathic meticulousness and forethought. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214. . 2014. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780571303335
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Book Description Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She is attractive. She drives a red Corvette. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed and devoted to her. But Celeste has a secret. She has a singular sexual obsession - fourteen-year-old boys. It is a craving she pursues with sociopathic meticulousness and forethought.Within weeks of her first term at a new school, Celeste has lured the charmingly modest Jack Patrick into her web - car rides after dark, rendezvous at Jack's house while his single father works the late shift, and body-slamming encounters in Celeste's empty classroom between periods. It is bliss.Celeste must constantly confront the forces threatening their affair - the perpetual risk of exposure, Jack's father's own attraction to her, and the ticking clock as Jack leaves innocent boyhood behind. But the insatiable Celeste is remorseless. She deceives everyone, is close to no one and cares little for anything but her pleasure.With crackling, stampeding, rampantly sexualized prose, Tampa is a grand, satirical, serio-comic examination of desire and a scorching literary debut. 272 pp. Deutsch. Seller Inventory # 9780571303335
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