The Story
A deliriously enjoyable, absolutely shocking book?a morality tale that tempts and taunts readers to succumb to every kind of immorality. (BOMB)In Alissa Nuttings novel Tampa, Celeste Price, a smoldering 26yearold middleschool teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of a 14yearold student.Celeste has chosen and lured the charmingly modest Jack Patrick into her web. Jack is enthralled and in awe of his eighthgrade teacher, and, most importantly, willing to accept Celestes terms for a secret relationshipcar rides after dark, rendezvous at Jacks house while his single father works the late shift, and bodyslamming erotic encounters in Celestes 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 Psychoesque rendering of a monstrously misplaced but undeterrable desire. Laced with black humor and crackling sexualized prose, Alissa Nuttings Tampa is a grand, seriocomic examination of the want behind student / teacher affairs and a scorching literary debut.
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A deliriously enjoyable, absolutely shocking book?a morality tale that tempts and taunts readers to succumb to every kind of immorality. (BOMB)In Alissa Nuttings novel Tampa, Celeste Price, a smoldering 26yearold middleschool teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of a 14yearold student.Celeste has chosen and lured the charmingly modest Jack Patrick into her web. Jack is enthralled and in awe of his eighthgrade teacher, and, most importantly, willing to accept Celestes terms for a secret relationshipcar rides after dark, rendezvous at Jacks house while his single father works the late shift, and bodyslamming erotic encounters in Celestes 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 Psychoesque rendering of a monstrously misplaced but undeterrable desire. Laced with black humor and crackling sexualized prose, Alissa Nuttings Tampa is a grand, seriocomic examination of the want behind student / teacher affairs and a scorching literary debut.
