Tampa [Preview Edition]

Alissa Nutting
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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. In slaking her sexual thirst, Celeste is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation. She deceives everyone, is close to no one, and cares little for anything but her own 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, it is a grand, seriocomic examination of the want behind student / teacher affairs. This special preview edition includes the first two chapters of the novel, an interview with the author, and a letter from the book's editor introducing this scorching literary debut.
Genres: HorrorFiction
68 Pages

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