Innocents
Cathy Coote
Dec 2007 · Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
4.5star
2 reviews
Ebook
258
Pages
About this ebook
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
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
Ratings and reviews
4.5
2 reviews
Arooj Alam
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January 24, 2014
I loved the complexity of the narrator's character and the roller coaster of emotions we the reader feel for her throughout the book. I especially love the choice of words the author uses to convey the thoughts in the narrator's mind, and yes the steamy love scenes lol
About the author
Cathy Coote is 20 years old. A winner of the Sydney Morning Herald's Young Writer of the Year Award, she went on to have her own column in the Sun-Herald by the age of 18. Based in Canberra (where she has been studying Biology at university), for the past 12 months she has been living in Edinburgh.
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