Tampa

<p><strong>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</strong></p><p>In Alissa Nutting's novel <em>Tampa</em> 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.<br/> <br/>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.<br/> <br/><em>Tampa</em> 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 <em>Tampa</em> is a grand seriocomic examination of the want behind student / teacher affairs and a scorching literary debut.</p>