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   None No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) lcl999 | Sep 30, 2022 |  Not really, but the story reads like it. Disturbing sections, but it's a wild ride. (  ) ennuiprayer | Jan 14, 2022 |  ) titania86 | Apr 3, 2014 |  )1  Kurtisdarby | Feb 17, 2012 | It's written sort of as a letter. Somewhere in the first 50 pages or so we discover that she's writing down an account of their affair and that this account is being written to her lover / the teacher, at his request. There are many sentences that end with 'darling,' which is never pleasant. I read this because someone I used to know was scandalized and titillated by it. While 16 year old girls aren't quite my cup of tea, I do have an interest in the darker sides of sexuality. However, it was written by a 19 year old. The audience was clearly people who wanted to be scandalized and titillated, without the benefit of actually having to consider alternative sexual lifestyles. In summation : It bored me and I was not scandalized or titillated. (  ) agnesmack | Sep 4, 2011 | no reviews | add a review
A young novelist "turns Nabokov on his head in this tale of an Aussie Lolita who sets her sights on a witless teacher . . . enthralling and ultimately sobering" (Kirkus Reviews). Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents draws readers into the anatomy of an adolescent obsession. We all know that manipulating someone naïve and vulnerable into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is wrong--even evil. But when the perpetrator is a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl, is she culpable? And if the victim is her thirty-four-year-old teacher, shouldn't he have known better? When the nameless young narrator of Innocents decides to seduce her teacher, she immediately realizes that the power of her sexuality is greater than she ever imagined. She leaves the aunt and uncle who are her guardians and moves in with her teacher; together, they quickly embark on a journey into their darkest desires. Unforgettable, disturbing, and morally complex, Innocents permanently unsettles our notions of innocence, experience, and power. "Coote is a natural, wryly dissecting the workings of human desire." --The New York Times Book Review No library descriptions found. |
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