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Celeste Price can be an eighth-grade English educator in suburban Tampa. She's undeniably attractive. She drives a red Corvette with tinted house windows. Her partner, Ford, is wealthy, square-jawed, and devoted to her. But Celeste's devotion is elsewhere. She has a singular intimate obsession: 14-year-old boys. Celeste pursues her craving with sociopathic meticulousness and forethought; her singular purpose in becoming a teacher is to satisfy her passion and provide her access to her compulsion. As the novel opens, fall season semester at Jefferson Jr. High is starting. In only weeks, Celeste has chosen and lured the lusciously naive Jack Patrick into her web. Jack is enthralled and in awe of his educator, and, most important, willing to accept Celeste's terms for a secret romantic relationship - car rides after university; rendezvous at Jack's house while his sole father works later; body-slamming encounters in Celeste's vacant classroom between durations. Ever before mindful of the risk - the perpetual risk of publicity, Jack's father's own fascination to her, and the ticking clock as Jack leaves innocent boyhood behind - the hyperbolically insatiable Celeste bypasses each hurdle with swift thinking and shameless perseverance, even though the solutions involve better misdeeds than the affair itself. In slaking her intimate thirst, Celeste Price is remorseless and deviously free from hesitation, a monstress motivated by pure inspiration. She deceives everyone, and cares little or nothing for anyone or anything but her own pleasure. With crackling, rampantly unadulterated prose, Tampa is a grand, uncompromising, seriocomic study of want and a scorching literary debut.
