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Innocents

por Cathy Coote

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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… (más)
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If you read the first 30 and last 30 pages you've read the novel. In between are umpteen variations on how our precocious 16-y.o. teases and seduces the older man she has latched onto. It gets a bit boring but I read on to see if there was any development. There wasn't till the very end, and that wasn't convincing. ( )
  lcl999 | Sep 30, 2022 |
Lolita only through the eyes of the girl.

Not really, but the story reads like it. Disturbing sections, but it's a wild ride. ( )
  ennuiprayer | Jan 14, 2022 |
Poor attempt to write a new version of Lolita from the young girl's perspective. The sexual scenes were liberally used throughout the novel and grew monotonous after a while. The writing was fine, but the story just didn't really go anywhere. ( )
  titania86 | Apr 3, 2014 |
This book was almost adorable where it seemed to be attempting at disturbing. It's enjoyable and the ending is not terribly tragic as the abstract would have you believe so don't fear it. ( )
1 vota Kurtisdarby | Feb 17, 2012 |
Innocents is basically the story of a 16 year girl who seduces her teacher. So enamored by her is he, that he quits his job, rents them a new house and takes her away from her life. They have sex constantly and she's constantly manipulating him.

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 |
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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

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