We’re horrified by what a pervert the man is and feel pity for the girl. In interviews, Nutting expressed she was interested in the way society reacts when an older man has a sexual relationship with a minor female. That’s a big leap! The most lascivious-looking button hole you’ve ever seen. Tampa, however, hit it big when published by Ecco, an imprint of Harper Collins, one of the “big five” operations that control most of what we in America read. It’s small enough that I’ve met the guy who started the press, claiming he had to do something while he was getting divorced. You see, Unclean Jobs was published by a small press, Starcherone. There’s nothing quite as exciting as a short story writer publishing her first novel, and when Tampa can out in 2013, I started obsessively reading interviews about it. This book is also an exercise in great first lines and how they can make the story, shape it into an adventure. I laughed, I was bummed, the stories seemed to teach something I need to dig for, in a good way. The stories were clever, bold, and when I read it in 2011 I left this on Goodreads: Content Warning: statutory rape, vivid descriptions of erogenous zones of male and female bodies, drugging another person, using drugs to tolerate unwanted sex, vivid descriptions of sexual acts, cruel thoughts about people whose bodies don’t fit current society’s ideals, 1st-person point of view from a sexual predator, voyeurism.Īlissa Nutting’s first book, a collection of short stories called Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, was a fantastic reading experience.
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