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Tampa (Paperback)
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Tampa (Paperback)

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Synopsis
Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She is attractive. She drives a red Corvette. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed and devoted to her. But Celeste has a secret. She has a singular sexual obsession - fourteen-year-old boys. It is a craving she pursues with sociopathic meticulousness and forethought. Within weeks of her first term at a new school, Celeste has lured the charmingly modest Jack Patrick into her web - car rides after dark, rendezvous at Jack's house while his single father works the late shift, and body-slamming encounters in Celeste's empty classroom between periods. It is bliss. Celeste must constantly confront the forces threatening their affair - the perpetual risk of exposure, Jack's father's own attraction to her, and the ticking clock as Jack leaves innocent boyhood behind. But the insatiable Celeste is remorseless. She deceives everyone, is close to no one and cares little for anything but her pleasure. With crackling, stampeding, rampantly sexualized prose, Tampa is a grand, satirical, serio-comic examination of desire and a scorching literary debut.

Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571303335

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“Horrific, vulgar and completely fascinating...”

An absolute horror of a read that is all the more effective because it is written in first person perspective through the eyes of the most cold and calculated woman I've ever stumbled across in a novel. Celeste... More

Paperback edition
20th September 2015
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“A Triumphant Attack of a Difficult Issue”

To everyone around her, Celeste seems to have it all - a picture perfect home life, the ideal husband, a successful and fulfilling career, and co-workers who adore her. However, all this is a front for a life plagued... More

Paperback edition
4th November 2013
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“Uncomfortable, sick... but genius!”

I think it was Irvine Welsh who talked about this book on twitter and got me curious. Of course, it should have also been a warning, knowing that Welsh’s subjects and interests are rarely for the rabbit-hearted –... More

Paperback edition
17th September 2013
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