![]() Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 9780571303335 Number of pages: 272 Weight: 222 g Dimensions: 198 x 126 x 16 mm Edition: Main You may also be interested in. With crackling, stampeding, rampantly sexualized prose, Tampa is a grand, satirical, serio-comic examination of desire and a scorching literary debut. And let me say, WOW For a debut novel, this is incredibly strong. ![]() She deceives everyone, is close to no one and cares little for anything but her pleasure. Tampa by Alissa Nutting: A complex inquiry into female sexuality, predation and social treatment of deviance by gender and appearance The last couple of months I have been on a transgressive literature kick, and yesterday I completed Tampa by Alissa Nutting. A Florida teacher, Lafave pleaded guilty in 2005 to a case of lewd or lascivious battery, after. 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.īut the insatiable Celeste is remorseless. Alissa Nutting’s debut was inspired by the case of her former high-school peer, Debra Lafave. ![]() ![]() 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 a craving she pursues with sociopathic meticulousness and forethought. She has a singular sexual obsession - fourteen-year-old boys. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed and devoted to her. ![]() Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. ![]()
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