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Radiantly straightforward, an interview with alissa nutting. His contention is that shes too much of a monster, that she never felt real, and that the book is a paintbynumberish affair in which a 26yearold blond middle school teacher. However, a sexy young female teacher, divulges in similar acts of pedophelia and the boys are seen as lucky. Laced with black humor and crackling sexualized prose, alissa nuttings tampa is a grand, seriocomic examination of the want behind student teacher affairs and a scorching literary debut. In her debut novel tampa, alissa nutting has done readers a great service by introducing them to celeste price. In alissa nuttings novel tampa, celeste price, a smoldering 26yearold middleschool.
Jack is enthralled and in awe of his eighthgrade teacher, and, most importantly, willing to accept. Celeste price is an eighthgrade english teacher in suburban tampa. Nutting was inspired by debra lafave, a tampa teacher charged with having sex with her middle school students in 20. American psycho meets lolita in this outrageously dark and funny debut novel.
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