Tampa 
But Celeste's devotion lies elsewhere. She has a singular sexual obsession—fourteen-year-old boys. Celeste pursues her craving with sociopathic meticulousness and forethought; her sole purpose in becoming a teacher is to fulfill her passion and provide her access to her compulsion. As the novel opens, fall semester at Jefferson Jr. High is beginning.
In mere weeks, Celeste has chosen and lured the lusciously naive Jack Patrick into her web. Jack is enthralled and in awe of his teacher, and, most important, willing to accept Celeste's terms for a secret relationship—car rides after school; rendezvous at Jack's house while his single father works late; body-slamming encounters in Celeste's empty classroom between periods.
Ever mindful of the danger—the perpetual risk of exposure, Jack's father's own attraction to her, and the ticking clock as Jack leaves innocent boyhood behind—the hyperbolically insatiable Celeste bypasses each hurdle with swift thinking and shameless determination, even when the solutions involve greater misdeeds than the affair itself. In slaking her sexual thirst, Celeste Price is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation, a monstress driven by pure motivation. She deceives everyone, and cares nothing for anyone or anything but her own pleasure.
With crackling, rampantly unadulterated prose, Tampa is a grand, uncompromising, seriocomic examination of want and a scorching literary debut.
Well, here goes. Yes, I read an extremely sexually graphic book about a female middle school teacher who has an affair with a 14-year-old male student or two. So there's that.After finishing this book yesterday, I watched part of an interview with its seeming inspiration, Debra Lafave, expecting it to be sort of like that prison interview with Richard Kuklinski: remorseless, cold, disturbing, honest - and even perhaps unconsciously gloating because why not?, or at the very least exploratory of
It mostly consists of lots of disturbing sex scenes with a minor designed to shock readers, and a bland, cartoonish and underdeveloped main character(s). I guess this is supposed to be a character study, but its hard to do that when youre too busy writing sex scenes instead of developing the characters. Basically, its a book that uses its controversial subject to distract readers from how bad the whole thing is. So there, I read it so you dont have to.

"Ford, like the husbands of most women who marry for money, is far too old. Since I'm twenty-six myself, it's true that he and I are close peers. But thirty-one is roughly seventeen years past my window of sexual interest."HOLY SHITMrs Price, an 8th grade teacher, has an unadulterated sexual obsession with 14 year old boys. Not just any 14 year old boy, but lesser developed boys. Once any sign of manhood manifests itself, she not only loses interest, she is repulsed. WTFThis story is told
This is an odd one to rate and review. Was it well-written? Oh, yeah. Almost... too well-written. Felt a couple times like the plot was a bit too overtly manipulated to steer the story toward a particular conclusion, but maybe I'm just being picky.Was it entertaining? Hell, yeah. It was hilarious, in the way that sociopaths can be hilarious with their overriding desire to please themselves at the expense of all others (and specifically, Celeste's inner thoughts about those around her.) The voice
Five stars for sheer audacity and fearlnessness. This book has some issues but Nutting has completely committed to her premise of a hot, twenty-something female teacher/pedophile. People are going to have LOTS to say about this book. There are going to be comparisons to Lolita and American Psycho but the similarities between Tampa and those books are on the surface only. In Tampa, Celeste is her desires and the plot is how she goes about satisfying those desires. To say this novel is explicit
I am no pearl clutcher but damn...I DNFed it at about 20% so that I could go take 27 showers and pour acid in my eyes just to forget the words I'd read.This book is vile; I felt like shock was the only tool in the author's toolbox and she wielded it like a hammer. My brain was the nail.No thanks....ever.
Alissa Nutting
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Title | : | Tampa |
Author | : | Alissa Nutting |
Book Format | : | ebook |
Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
Pages | : | Pages: 272 pages |
Published | : | July 2nd 2013 by Ecco |
Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Adult. Mystery. Crime. Dark |
Interpretation Supposing Books Tampa
Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She's undeniably attractive. She drives a red Corvette with tinted windows. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed, and devoted to her.But Celeste's devotion lies elsewhere. She has a singular sexual obsession—fourteen-year-old boys. Celeste pursues her craving with sociopathic meticulousness and forethought; her sole purpose in becoming a teacher is to fulfill her passion and provide her access to her compulsion. As the novel opens, fall semester at Jefferson Jr. High is beginning.
In mere weeks, Celeste has chosen and lured the lusciously naive Jack Patrick into her web. Jack is enthralled and in awe of his teacher, and, most important, willing to accept Celeste's terms for a secret relationship—car rides after school; rendezvous at Jack's house while his single father works late; body-slamming encounters in Celeste's empty classroom between periods.
Ever mindful of the danger—the perpetual risk of exposure, Jack's father's own attraction to her, and the ticking clock as Jack leaves innocent boyhood behind—the hyperbolically insatiable Celeste bypasses each hurdle with swift thinking and shameless determination, even when the solutions involve greater misdeeds than the affair itself. In slaking her sexual thirst, Celeste Price is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation, a monstress driven by pure motivation. She deceives everyone, and cares nothing for anyone or anything but her own pleasure.
With crackling, rampantly unadulterated prose, Tampa is a grand, uncompromising, seriocomic examination of want and a scorching literary debut.
Present Books Toward Tampa
Original Title: | Tampa |
ISBN: | 0062280562 (ISBN13: 9780062280565) |
Characters: | Celeste Price, Jack Patrick |
Setting: | Tampa, Florida(United States) |
Rating Out Of Books Tampa
Ratings: 3.44 From 19326 Users | 3371 ReviewsRate Out Of Books Tampa
..theyd never feel their libido a deformed thing to be kept chained up in the attic of their mind and to only be fed in secret after dark. Meet Celeste Price. Or do we really want to? Its a dicey prospect based completely on individual perceptions but something not entirely ineffectual. If we take a moment to consider the plot and the innovation it involves, then the result will be far from satisfactory. A twenty-six years old, eighth-grade English teacher with a thing for and only for 14 yearWell, here goes. Yes, I read an extremely sexually graphic book about a female middle school teacher who has an affair with a 14-year-old male student or two. So there's that.After finishing this book yesterday, I watched part of an interview with its seeming inspiration, Debra Lafave, expecting it to be sort of like that prison interview with Richard Kuklinski: remorseless, cold, disturbing, honest - and even perhaps unconsciously gloating because why not?, or at the very least exploratory of
It mostly consists of lots of disturbing sex scenes with a minor designed to shock readers, and a bland, cartoonish and underdeveloped main character(s). I guess this is supposed to be a character study, but its hard to do that when youre too busy writing sex scenes instead of developing the characters. Basically, its a book that uses its controversial subject to distract readers from how bad the whole thing is. So there, I read it so you dont have to.

"Ford, like the husbands of most women who marry for money, is far too old. Since I'm twenty-six myself, it's true that he and I are close peers. But thirty-one is roughly seventeen years past my window of sexual interest."HOLY SHITMrs Price, an 8th grade teacher, has an unadulterated sexual obsession with 14 year old boys. Not just any 14 year old boy, but lesser developed boys. Once any sign of manhood manifests itself, she not only loses interest, she is repulsed. WTFThis story is told
This is an odd one to rate and review. Was it well-written? Oh, yeah. Almost... too well-written. Felt a couple times like the plot was a bit too overtly manipulated to steer the story toward a particular conclusion, but maybe I'm just being picky.Was it entertaining? Hell, yeah. It was hilarious, in the way that sociopaths can be hilarious with their overriding desire to please themselves at the expense of all others (and specifically, Celeste's inner thoughts about those around her.) The voice
Five stars for sheer audacity and fearlnessness. This book has some issues but Nutting has completely committed to her premise of a hot, twenty-something female teacher/pedophile. People are going to have LOTS to say about this book. There are going to be comparisons to Lolita and American Psycho but the similarities between Tampa and those books are on the surface only. In Tampa, Celeste is her desires and the plot is how she goes about satisfying those desires. To say this novel is explicit
I am no pearl clutcher but damn...I DNFed it at about 20% so that I could go take 27 showers and pour acid in my eyes just to forget the words I'd read.This book is vile; I felt like shock was the only tool in the author's toolbox and she wielded it like a hammer. My brain was the nail.No thanks....ever.
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