With crackling, rampantly unadulterated prose, Tampa is a grand, uncompromising, seriocomic examination of want and a scorching literary debut. She deceives everyone, and cares nothing for anyone or anything but her own pleasure. In slaking her sexual thirst, Celeste Price is remorseless and deviously free of hesitation, a monstress driven by pure motivation. Jack is enthralled and in awe of his teacher, and, most important, willing to accept Celeste's terms for a secret relationship-car rides after school rendezvous at Jack's house while his single father works late body-slamming encounters in Celeste's empty classroom between periods.Įver mindful of the danger-the perpetual risk of exposure, Jack's father's own attraction to her, and the ticking clock as Jack leaves innocent boyhood behind-the hyperbolically insatiable Celeste bypasses each hurdle with swift thinking and shameless determination, even when the solutions involve greater misdeeds than the affair itself. In mere weeks, Celeste has chosen and lured the lusciously naive Jack Patrick into her web. As the novel opens, fall semester at Jefferson Jr. Celeste pursues her craving with sociopathic meticulousness and forethought her sole purpose in becoming a teacher is to fulfill her passion and provide her access to her compulsion. She has a singular sexual obsession-fourteen-year-old boys. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed, and devoted to her.īut Celeste's devotion lies elsewhere. She drives a red Corvette with tinted windows. Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa.
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