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Tampa is the debut novel by author Alissa Nutting, in which middle school teacher Celeste Price recounts her molestation of Jack Patrick, her fourteen-year-old student. Plot Celeste Price is a beautiful 26-year-old woman who is unhappily married to Ford, an alcoholic police officer with a wealthy family. She is secretly a hebephile, and has constructed her life to facilitate the pursuit of 14-year-old boys. The novel opens just before her first day as an English teacher at Jefferson Junior High, where she plans to seduce a student. Celeste sets her sights on a shy student of hers named Jack Patrick. She repeatedly directs classroom discussion towards sexual matters, and begins to groom Jack by keeping him after class to discuss Romeo and Juliet, which the class is reading. Celeste discovers Jack's address and drives to his house. As she hides in her car she masturbates to Jack doing mundane things in the windows. One night she watches him masturbate in his bedroom. The next day, she keeps Jack after class and claims that she accidentally saw him when she was in the area. Jack is humiliated, but Celeste tells him that she is attracted to him and the two begin a relationship. A week later, Celeste picks up Jack, who has told his father he would be working on a school project. Celeste takes Jack's virginity. When Celeste ignores Ford, distracted by fantasies about Jack, a drunk Ford criticizes Celeste for apparent disgust towards him and he violently grabs Celeste's arm.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humourous, and continued from there. I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.”
— Piers Anthony, as quoted in 100 Most Popular Genre Fiction Authors (2005) by Bernard Alger Drew, p. 11
“• Under Florida’s “stand your ground” law, it is legal to shoot anybody for any reason as long as you are standing on the ground.”
— Dave Barry, Best. State. Ever. (2016), Chapter 2
“When I was twelve, I helped my Daddy build a bomb shelter in our basement, because some damn fool parked a dozen warheads ninety miles off the coast of Florida. This thing could park a coupla' hundred warheads off Washington or New York and no-one would know anything about it until it was all over.”
— Larry Ferguson, in The Hunt for Red October (1990), based on the novel by Tom Clancy.
“California, Florida, whatever. Either way, your pale ass is getting a tan.”
— Hubert Selby, Jr., in Requiem for a Dream (2000)
“One nice thing about Florida, it makes Pennsylvania look unspoiled.”
— John Updike, in Rabbit at Rest (1990).
“There’s high awareness of the ballot measure. People understand Amendment 4 is on the ballot. But they don’t necessarily connect that there’s a six-week abortion ban.”
— Alex Berrios, co-founder of the Yes on 4 campaign , according to With days until Election Day, groups make final push for Florida's abortion rights ballot measure (Oct. 30, 2024)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Tampa is the debut novel by author Alissa Nutting, in which middle school teacher Celeste Price recounts her molestation of Jack Patrick, her fourteen-year-old student.

Overview

Tampa is the debut novel by author Alissa Nutting, in which middle school teacher Celeste Price recounts her molestation of Jack Patrick, her fourteen-year-old student. Plot Celeste Price is a beautiful 26-year-old woman who is unhappily married to Ford, an alcoholic police officer with a wealthy family. She is secretly a hebephile, and has constructed her life to facilitate the pursuit of 14-year-old boys. The novel opens just before her first day as an English teacher at Jefferson Junior High, where she plans to seduce a student. Celeste sets her sights on a shy student of hers named Jack Patrick. She repeatedly directs classroom discussion towards sexual matters, and begins to groom Jack by keeping him after class to discuss Romeo and Juliet, which the class is reading. Celeste discovers Jack's address and drives to his house. As she hides in her car she masturbates to Jack doing mundane things in the windows. One night she watches him masturbate in his bedroom. The next day, she keeps Jack after class and claims that she accidentally saw him when she was in the area. Jack is humiliated, but Celeste tells him that she is attracted to him and the two begin a relationship. A week later, Celeste picks up Jack, who has told his father he would be working on a school project. Celeste takes Jack's virginity. When Celeste ignores Ford, distracted by fantasies about Jack, a drunk Ford criticizes Celeste for apparent disgust towards him and he violently grabs Celeste's arm.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humourous, and continued from there. I turned my home state of Florida into the Land of Xanth.”
— Piers Anthony, as quoted in 100 Most Popular Genre Fiction Authors (2005) by Bernard Alger Drew, p. 11
“• Under Florida’s “stand your ground” law, it is legal to shoot anybody for any reason as long as you are standing on the ground.”
— Dave Barry, Best. State. Ever. (2016), Chapter 2
“When I was twelve, I helped my Daddy build a bomb shelter in our basement, because some damn fool parked a dozen warheads ninety miles off the coast of Florida. This thing could park a coupla' hundred warheads off Washington or New York and no-one would know anything about it until it was all over.”
— Larry Ferguson, in The Hunt for Red October (1990), based on the novel by Tom Clancy.
“California, Florida, whatever. Either way, your pale ass is getting a tan.”
— Hubert Selby, Jr., in Requiem for a Dream (2000)
“One nice thing about Florida, it makes Pennsylvania look unspoiled.”
— John Updike, in Rabbit at Rest (1990).
“There’s high awareness of the ballot measure. People understand Amendment 4 is on the ballot. But they don’t necessarily connect that there’s a six-week abortion ban.”
— Alex Berrios, co-founder of the Yes on 4 campaign , according to With days until Election Day, groups make final push for Florida's abortion rights ballot measure (Oct. 30, 2024)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

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Tampa across IJR

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