![]() ![]() "Coote is a natural, wryly dissecting the workings of human desire. "Coote is a natural, wryly dissecting the workings of human desire." - The New York Times Book Review Unforgettable, disturbing, and morally complex, Innocents permanently unsettles our notions of innocence, experience, and power. 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. ![]() 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. Forcing someone vulnerable and naive into a sexual. 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? Written when Coote was 19, Innocents is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatomy of an obsession. We all know that manipulating someone naïve and vulnerable into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is wrong-even evil. Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents draws readers into the anatomy of an adolescent obsession. enthralling and ultimately sobering" ( Kirkus Reviews). We all know that manipulating someone nave and vulnerable into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is wrongeven evil. A young novelist "turns Nabokov on his head in this tale of an Aussie Lolita who sets her sights on a witless teacher. Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents draws readers into the anatomy of an adolescent obsession. ![]()
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