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Several people who had read this before me likened it to american psycho, which i think is a mistake. This book has some issues but nutting has completely committed to her premise of a hot, twentysomething female teacherpedophile. She paused briefly before adding, i read all the books for this year over the. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Tampa ebook by alissa nutting 9780062280565 rakuten kobo. People are going to have lots to say about this book.
American psycho meets lolita in this outrageously dark and funny debut novel about the author. Ive learned more new words in this book than any other books that ive read so far. Tampa by alissa nutting is the story of one celeste price, an attractive young married woman who has a dark secret she has a fetish for young teenage boys. Her husband, ford, is rich, squarejawed and devoted to her. Find books like tampa from the worlds largest community of readers. Celeste price 26 years old, married, affluent, gorgeous has just been hired as a schoolteacher in suburban tampa, florida. Nutting was inspired by debra lafave, a tampa teacher charged with having sex with her middle. Aug 24, 20 yet little, if any, has related to a female adult protagonist, which is what makes tampa an intriguing prospect. She has a singular sexual obsession fourteenyearold boys. Alissa nutting author of tampa goodreads share book. It is a craving she pursues with sociopathic meticulousness and forethought. Download read tampa 20 by alissa nutting in pdf, epub.
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