Luring a teenage boy into her web

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'How readers respond to Alissa Nutting’s new novel will largely depend on how they feel about reading detailed descriptions of sex between a 26-year-old middle-school teacher and the 14-year-old boys she craves. Some readers will praise the story as an uncompromising look at a remorseless sexual deviant. Others will dismiss it as a distasteful act of provocateurship. Either way, the controversy will presumably move some copies.
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Nutting’s narrator, Celeste Price, may be a sociopath, but she’s an undeniably pretty, buxom blonde. The wife of a good-natured but doltish cop, Celeste has taken a job as an eighth-grade English teacher to get closer to boys “at the very last link of androgyny that puberty would permit.” Like Humbert Humbert, she must choose her victim carefully: He has to be just a little shy, unlikely to brag and not too supervised at home. Like Humbert, she eventually has to submit to sex with a repulsive parent to ensure continued access. Like Humbert, she’s eventually free of that pesky parent without having to resort to a weapon herself.'