Innocents (Paperback)

Innocents Book Description

Written when Coote was 19, "Innocents" is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatomy of an obsession. Forcing someone vulnerable and naive into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is perverted, even evil. But when the perpetrator is a sixteen-year-old schoolgirl, is she culpable?
Written when Cathy Coote was nineteen, Innocents is a taut, wickedly clever descent into the anatomy of an obsession, the debut of a precociously assured and provocative young literary voice. Forcing someone vulnerable and naive into a sexual relationship to satisfy a twisted desire is perverted, 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, and suggests that we all are culpable. "Compelling stuff, sexy and disturbingly frank.... A brilliant debut." -- Meg Stewart, The Bulletin

About the Author :

Cathy Coote has contributed to Innocents as an author. Coote won both the Canberra Times and Sydney Morning Herald Young Writer of the Year awards in 1995.

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