Tampa by Alissa Nutting (English) Paperback Book

Description: Tampa by Alissa Nutting The most controversial novel of 2013 . Meet Celeste Price: Wife, teacher, sociopath FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Jacks house while his single father works the late shift, and body-slamming encounters in Celestes empty classroom between periods. It is bliss.Celeste must constantly confront the forces threatening their affair - the perpetual risk of exposure, Jacks fathers 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. Notes American Psycho meets Lolita in this outrageously dark and funny debut, now in paperback. A suburban English teacher with a singular sexual obsession for 14yr old boys begins a dangerous affair with a modest pupil. Publication accompanied by a social media push to attract fans of Bret Easton Ellis and Jonathan Franzen. Brave and beautifully written; a provocative look at a taboo subject Irvine Welsh. Author Biography Alissa Nutting is an assistant professor of creative writing at John Carroll University. She is the author of the award winning collection of stories, Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Oprah, Tin House, Fence and Bomb, among others. This is her first novel. Promotional Tampa by Alissa Nutting: American Psycho meets Lolita in this outrageously dark and funny debut novel. Long Description The most controversial novel of 2013 . Meet Celeste Price: Wife, teacher, sociopath 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 Jacks house while his single father works the late shift, and body-slamming encounters in Celestes empty classroom between periods. It is bliss. Celeste must constantly confront the forces threatening their affair - the perpetual risk of exposure, Jacks fathers 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. Promotional "Headline" Tampa by Alissa Nutting: American Psycho meets Lolita in this outrageously dark and funny debut novel. Details ISBN0571303331 Author Alissa Nutting Year 2014 ISBN-10 0571303331 ISBN-13 9780571303335 Media Book Pages 272 Publisher Faber & Faber Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 813.6 Imprint Faber & Faber Place of Publication London Format Paperback Edition Main Audience Age 0-0 Language English UK Release Date 2014-06-05 AU Release Date 2014-06-05 Edition Description Main Publication Date 2014-06-05 Audience General NZ Release Date 2014-07-31 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:76362727;

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