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On the surface, 26-year-old Celeste Price seems to have it all. She’s stunningly beautiful, married to a handsome police officer from a wealthy family, and about to start a new job as a junior-high teacher. But Celeste is harboring a dark secret: she is driven by a sexual obsession with prepubescent teenage boys. Her new job allows her unrestricted access to the objects of her lust, and she soon settles on one—14-year-old Jack Patrick, a quiet, thoughtful boy in her third-period class. Celeste stalks Jack and discovers he lives alone with his father before making her move on the boy in her classroom. Her seduction of Jack is successful, and Celeste and the boy are soon engaging in steamy trysts wherever and whenever they can manage them. Though Celeste is able to keep her dim-witted husband at bay, she is thrown a curveball when Jack’s father, Buck, expresses interest in her. A chilling examination of a sociopath whose beautiful face masks her pathology, Nutting’s debut is taut, sexually explicit, and utterly engrossing. --Kristine Huntley
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“...A highly diverting read...Ms. Nutting lands it.” (New York Times)
“Impeccably written, full of smart cultural observations, and no small amount of wit...A very bold book.” (Daily Beast)
“The writing is often excellent, hilariously dark, and mean…Reading about [Celeste] was honestly disturbing and fun.” (Entertainment Weekly)
It’s as riveting as it is disturbing.” (NewYorkmagazine.com's Vulture)
“Completely entertaining.” (Salon)
“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)
“A work of serious ambition, both literary and moral. It’s also laced with dark, sometimes savage humor and juicy riffs on consumer culture and its twin obsessions, youth and beauty.” (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
“Tampa is one of the most shocking books I have read; it’s also one of the most mesmerizing and surprising. Alissa Nutting has written a stunning, brutal book.” (Shelf Awareness)
“A deliriously enjoyable, absolutely shocking booka morality tale that tempts and taunts readers to succumb to every kind of immorality.” (BOMB)
“Gutsy.” (TIME)
“Smart and biting.” (New York Journal of Books)
“A brilliant commentary on sex and society.” (Cosmopolitan)
“Tampa takes on a very serious and disturbing subject with such flair and dark humor and bawdy sexual energy that Nutting is sure to become a member in the small club of authors who turns risky writing into high art.” (Tin House)
“Bold and fascinatingly transgressive…Tampa may be the new American Psycho.” (MSN Entertainment)
“TAMPA is one of the most shocking books I have read; it’s also one of the most mesmerizing and surprising. I expected to be disturbed, even appalled; what I did not expect in this story of a female teacher fixated on 14-year-old boys was lyricism and black humor.” (Marilyn Dahl, Shelf Awareness)
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