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Author: Alissa Nutting | Language: English | ISBN: B00AXY3GQS | Format: PDF, EPUB

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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.
 
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.
 
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, Alissa Nutting’s Tampa is a grand, seriocomic examination of the want behind student / teacher affairs and a scorching literary debut.

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• File Size: 891 KB
• Print Length: 277 pages
• Publisher: Ecco (July 2, 2013)
• Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers
  
• Language: English
• ASIN: B00AXY3GQS
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #24,442 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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'The rage of lust was like an IV drip in my veins; I felt it beginning to spread inside me with the helpless awareness of someone realizing she's been slipped a drug.'

Celeste has the intensity of a psychopath or even a serial killer when it comes to her sexual obsessions. The desperation in doing whatever it takes to satisfy her need was disturbing to say the least. Her complete disregard for how her actions would affect others in her life was unsettling. Celeste is hands down one of the most warped characters in literature I have ever had the pleasure of reading.

Comparisons to Lolita cannot be helped (although it could also be compared to Belinda by Anne Rampling, one of Anne Rice's lesser known novels written under a pseudonym), despite the fact it's actually quite different it still manages to touch upon the same subject. Unlike Lolita, this is not a retelling of events or even a confession but a first person accounting of the main characters sexual forays. But be warned, Celeste makes Humbert Humbert look tame in comparison. Nabokov wrote a truly lyrical story that managed to win over many readers despite Humbert's wrongs; he became one to be pitied. Nutting has done the opposite with her character Celeste and does not ever intend for you to pity her or feel sorry for her affliction. She's extremely lewd and vulgar and the pages reek with indecency and she's not ashamed to admit it.

'I found that sometimes it was a relief to do something unattractive in private, to confirm that I'm deeply flawed when so many others imagine me to be perfect.'

She found anyone that had begun to show signs that adolescence was leaving them to be completely foul and disgusting and was utterly envious of the female children of her class.

I was on holidays, and needed a book. Tampa has attracted a lot of press in Australia, with some mainstream booksellers refusing to stock it. I decided to see what all the fuss is about.
So, let's jump to the reviews, here on Amazon. I read just about all of them with unusual interest.
Several reviewers commented that they found it difficult to decide on the number of stars to give Nutting's book. I had the same problem.
Thinking about it, I believe that there are 2 reasons for this. First, I suspect that there is a hesitancy to award the book 4 or 5 stars because - at some level - that feels like accepting or even condoning the behaviour of the main character.
Second, I found the book uneven, so here is my take on the book as a book. On the positive side, Nutting's portrayal of Celeste as psychopath is outstanding. Celeste's unrelenting heartlessness is presented consistently and convincingly. (Jon Ronson's "The Psychopath Test" is a good reference point here). Right until the last page - and I believe that the ending is another positive about the book - Celeste is a monster.
Another positive for me is Janet Feinlog, a superbly created antithesis to Celeste who seems to me to have wandered into this novel from the pages of "A Confederacy of Dunces." Wonderful character, with a brilliant cameo towards the end.
One of the big negatives was the "unadulterated sex," which I found unconvincing - a bit like Mills & Boon on viagra.
The other negatives were around plot weaknesses and gaps, well-covered by other reviewers. Why did Celeste's husband have to be a cop? Wealthy but dumb bank scion would have worked better, surely.
Finally, returning to a review of the reviews. What is it that we are reviewing - the book, or its subject?

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