![]() Tldr: I don’t need to read this book ever again. Honestly, the reading curriculum is insanely overdone. I appreciate the choice of curriculum, because it’s obvious that some of the things Celeste is talking about mirrors the sort of envelope-pushing convos she has with her students. Jack is enthralled and in awe of his eighth-grade. Celeste has chosen and lured the charmingly modest Jack Patrick into her web. While it’s used and glossed over in order to make the point that Celeste has a one track mind. In Alissa Nutting’s novel Tampa, 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. I felt like the scene where Celeste was running naked through neighborhood was a bit too over dramatic. A middle school teacher in Tampa, Fla., goes to outrageous lengths to hide her voracious sexual appetite for adolescent boys. Take the incident with Buck’s heart attack and the way Celeste chose to deliver the news to Jack by having him touch her breasts. The actual teacher, Debra LaFave, who had an affair with her fourteen-year-old student. Initially I thought that there was too much gratuitous sex, I do to a point, but I also see that as a way to distract the reader. Tampa is based on a true story about a beautiful woman with whom Nutting went to school who later had a relationship with a student. ![]() ![]() ![]() So many great characters-Ford, Jack, the poet who has a crush on Celeste at the beginning of the novel. T he plot of Tampa, a debut novel by Alissa Nutting, is simple: Celeste Price 26 years old, married, affluent, gorgeous has just been hired as a schoolteacher in suburban Tampa. She’s revolting as a predator and, really, a human being. ![]() Celeste is a well-written, effective character. ![]()
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