02 December 2009

It's an upset!

Prix Goncourt winner Jonathan Littell snuck past Philip Roth to take the Literary Review's annual Bad Sex in Fiction award for a passage in his novel THE KINDLY ONES, joining an exclusive club of winners like Tom Wolfe and John Updike.

Unlike the Bulwer-Lytton, there's really no way to quote these here in their horrifying glory, but having read all the very NSFW passages from the longlist, I'm not sure they gave it to the right man.

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