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  • Paperback: 272 pages
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber; Main edition (1 Aug. 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 057130334X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571303342
  • Product Dimensions: 13.5 x 2 x 21.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (142 customer reviews)
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Brave and beautifully written; a provocative look at a taboo subject. (Irvine Welsh)

Tampa is an instant classic. A dirty, funny, shocking, provocative, Nabokovian scandal-in-waiting that will be read and mis-read and fiercely debated. (Matt Haig)

Tampa is a wild ride - sexy, fast, funny, and frightening, the counterpoint to Lolita. Humbert Humbert is tame by comparison. You won't want anyone to know how much you enjoyed reading this book. (David Vann)

Tampa charms and seduces you into the mind of its remorseless female protagonist then twists the knife by skating uncomfortably close to your own inner darkness. Lock up your sons. (Viv Albertine)

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American Psycho meets Lolita in this outrageously dark and funny debut novel.

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4.0 out of 5 starsCompelling but Disturbing Debut
By Angela on 17 Sept. 2013
Format: Kindle Edition
This was a deeply disturbing book and due to the subject matter I would find it very hard to even recommend to people (in fact, the few people I told what the book was about give me such a look of derision and disgust that I stopped talking about it). With that said however, I found this book to be utterly compelling and very well written.

It is certainly not an easy read, and some of the more graphic sexual scenes do not make for comfortable reading at all considering the age(s) of those involved, but what I found more disturbing than the detailed sexual acts, were the monologues of the protagonist, Celeste. Her thoughts and actions were so predatory and sinister, and I felt more uncomfortable reading these internal thoughts of hers than anything else. Her total lack of compassion and sense of morality just didn't fail to surprise me (her actions directly after the death of Jack's father were particularly disgusting, in my opinion).

Despite the subject matter and how deplorable I personally found the actions of Celeste, I still found this debut novel completely fascinating. It put me completely out of my own comfort zone in terms of reading and literature, but I think this is an area that is not tackled enough and I think Nutting has done a sterling job.

*An advance reader copy was kindly provided by the publisher through Netgalley*
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5.0 out of 5 starsBrave, brilliantly written, thought provoking and yes - quite erotic
By Pink Wombat on 21 Feb. 2016
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I must declare an interest here - when I was 14 I had a crush on my beautiful female maths teacher (as did all the boys in my class) - and that abiding memory is why I bought the book. While my teacher was a tease who wore revealing clothing, Alissa Nutting's protagonist, Celeste Price, goes much, much further. What I had expected was a fairly erotic book, probably badly written. What I got was a superbly written story in which the selfishness and narcissism of Celeste advances through the story until it is very clear the damage she is causing to the young boys she seduces (even though they love it) as well as to her husband. Celeste skewers the other teachers and the unattractive boys with witty and well turned descriptions which reminded me of Gillian Flynn (Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects) at her best. There is some very good writing, including those very difficult to write sex scenes. I didn't like other reviewers have any problem with the fairly explicit sex. I'd rather have well-written highly detailed sex scenes than the limp prose and innuendo of Fifty Shades. The author claims the book is a satire, but I really don't see that. There is a cruel humour there, but what she describes is peculiar to the unusual circumstances (based on a factual case in Florida of Debra Lefave). While the book invites you to see how you would feel if the genders were reversed, this doesn't actually advance the case for or against the legal treatment Celeste finally gets. Clever cover, by the way!
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5.0 out of 5 starsA book you CAN judge by its cover
By Rough Diamond TOP 500 REVIEWER on 14 Oct. 2013
Format: Paperback
Just take a look at that cover for a moment. The image is nothing more provocative than a close-up photo of a buttonhole, perhaps on a pink blouse, from which a button appears recently to have been unbuttoned... but the invitingly open pink slit, in its background of paler nude-pink, also brazenly and self-consciously operates as a visual double-entendre. It's an image that renders explicit the (literally) nakedly sexual element within the socially-acceptable flirtatiousness of an unbuttoned pink blouse.

This is how Celeste, Tampa's central figure, operates. She allows her predatory sexual abuse of pubescent boys to hide in plain sight, within the licit scenario of 'pretty young teacher to a class of 14-year-olds'. Celeste is a dangerous woman of exceptionally warped tastes. She savours the feeling of power and control that secuding 14-year-olds gives her, to the extent that sex with under-age boys is the only way she can satisfy the raging demands of her rampant libido. The narrative of 'Tampa' enters Celeste's head with disturbing verve and precision. It invites us to share her excitement and pleasure as she pursues and entraps her prey. The (many, many) sex scenes mostly succeed in being simultaneously erotic and horrifying. Celeste, in her cold manipulation, her cunning, her desire for risk and her airy disassociation from consequence, is a textbook psychopath, and seeing the world through her eyes is a queasy but compelling experience.

Inevitably, consequence soon catches up with Celeste. Her skewed fantasy world crash-lands back into reality, leaving her to face the consequences of her crimes. For me, the ending was the most interesting and disturbing part of the whole novel.Read more ›
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3.0 out of 5 starsThe story is told from Celeste’s point of view and really feels like an inside into the mind of someone like a ...
By Bordly on 3 Nov. 2015
Format: Paperback
Tampa is the story of Celeste Price a narcissistic school teacher with a sexual fixation on 14 year old boys.
The story is told from Celeste’s point of view and really feels like an inside into the mind of someone like a (less murderous) Ted Bundy. Her extremely narcissistic ways are so abhorrent and with such meticulous forethought it’s almost frightening at times to watch her as she manipulates the situations and people around her.
The point of view of Celeste however does grow tedious at times. Celeste’s extreme lack of empathy or consideration at all for the people around her mean we don’t really get a break from her inner monolog of sexual fantasy, fear of aging and general conceitedness.
Other than the occasional derogative description or glimpses of conversation we don’t really get much insight into the other characters in the book either. I understand this added tension and also really highlighted Celestes contempt for those around her and fixation solely on appeasing her sexual need but I found myself really wanting to delve into the other characters of the book, I was at times far more interested in what they were thinking and feeling rather than reading another Celeste fantasy or sexual memory.
+Spoilers below +
In the end I think I was let down by… the end. I really can’t pin point exactly why this didn’t sit well with me, I think it was the portrayal of Celeste at the trail and in court her fantasy’s getting wildly out of control to the point where she is imagining a queue of orphans stood waiting in a line to put their genitals though her cell door, having been exclusively inside Celeste’s head throughout the book this felt ludicrous.Read more ›
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