
The Aunty Lee Series: Tampa (Paperback)
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The Aunty Lee Series: Tampa (Paperback)
- A provocative novel by Alissa Nutting that explores the complexities of female desire and societal perceptions of beauty
- Follows the story of Celeste Price, a 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, as she seduces a 14-year-old student
- Features a darkly humorous narrative that delves into the mind of a deeply disturbed character
- Highlights the secretive and illicit relationship between Celeste and her student, Jack Patrick, filled with risky encounters
- Offers a satirical take on the taboo of student-teacher affairs, blending explicit content with sharp wit Recognized for its bold storytelling and unique perspective on desire and morality
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- Book formatPaperback
- Fiction/nonfictionFiction
- GenreLiterature & Fiction
- Pub date20140101
- Pages272
- Reading levelGeneral
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"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.
The Aunty Lee Series: Tampa (Paperback)
- A provocative novel by Alissa Nutting that explores the complexities of female desire and societal perceptions of beauty
- Follows the story of Celeste Price, a 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, as she seduces a 14-year-old student
- Features a darkly humorous narrative that delves into the mind of a deeply disturbed character
- Highlights the secretive and illicit relationship between Celeste and her student, Jack Patrick, filled with risky encounters
- Offers a satirical take on the taboo of student-teacher affairs, blending explicit content with sharp wit Recognized for its bold storytelling and unique perspective on desire and morality
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