{"product_id":"tampa-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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNutting, Alissa:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eAlissa Nutting is an assistant professor of English at Grinnell College. She is the author of the story collection \u003cem\u003eUnclean Jobs for Women and Girls\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as the novel \u003cem\u003eTampa\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50591180947730,"sku":"9780062280589","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_07f09ed1-ab07-467c-8e77-e06db4b4cdaf.jpg?v=1732086296","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/tampa-9780062280589","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}