{"product_id":"tampa-by-alissa-nutting-9780062280589","title":"Tampa","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn Alissa Nutting's novel \u003cem\u003eTampa\u003c\/em\u003e, a shocking work of transgressive fiction, Celeste Price, a smouldering 26-year-old middle-school teacher in Florida, unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of a 14-year-old student.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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, forbidden romance—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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 in this gripping psychological thriller.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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 the black humour of a dark comedy and crackling sexualised 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\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47643241873644,"sku":"9780062280589","price":51.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780062280589-tampa.jpg?v=1779166706","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/tampa-by-alissa-nutting-9780062280589","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}