{"product_id":"9780062280589","title":"Tampa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“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\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Alissa Nutting’s novel \u003cem\u003eTampa\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCeleste 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eTampa\u003c\/em\u003e 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 \u003cem\u003eTampa\u003c\/em\u003e is a grand, seriocomic examination of the want behind student \/ teacher affairs and a scorching literary debut.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alissa Nutting","offers":[{"title":"HarperCollins |  Paperback \/ softback  |  2014-03-04","offer_id":48531553583359,"sku":"9780062280589","price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a57c3012-a8e8-4e56-a20a-67c6b9d83756.jpg?v=1778866058","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780062280589","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}