{"product_id":"tampa-a-novel","title":"Tampa: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Alissa Nutting’s novel \u003ci\u003eTampa\u003c\/i\u003e, a shocking work of transgressive fiction, 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, 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. 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 in this gripping psychological thriller.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTampa\u003c\/i\u003e is a sexually explicit, virtuosically satirical, American Psycho–esque rendering of a monstrously misplaced but undeterrable desire. Laced with the black humor of a dark comedy and crackling sexualized prose, Alissa Nutting’s \u003ci\u003eTampa\u003c\/i\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":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":55253106098467,"sku":"9780062280589","price":15.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780062280589.jpg?v=1781812188","url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/products\/tampa-a-novel","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}