De Literary review reikt al 19 jaar, elk jaar in december, de 'Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award' uit aan bekende, toonaangevende schrijvers die de mist in gaan bij het beschrijven van een erotische scene in hun boek.
De meest recente winnaar is schrijver David Guterson (die in 1995 de 'PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction' won voor zijn debuutroman Snow Falling on Cedars). De winnende sex-scene staat in zijn vijfde boek Ed King. Het verhaal in Ed King is gebaseerd op de Oedipus-mythe en speelt in de tweede helft van de 20ste-eeuw.
"These sorts of gyrations and five-sense choreographies, with variations on Ed's main themes, played out episodically between 10 p.m. and 10 a.m., when Diane said, "Let's shower."
In the shower, Ed stood with his hands at the back of his head, like someone just arrested, while she abused him with a bar of soap. After a while he shut his eyes, and Diane, wielding her fingernails now and staring at his face, helped him out with two practiced hands, one squeezing the family jewels, the other vigorous with the soap-and-warm-water treatment. It didn't take long for the beautiful and perfect Ed King to ejaculate for the fifth time in twelve hours, while looking like Roman public-bath statuary. Then they rinsed, dried, dressed, and went to an expensive restaurant for lunch."
David, David, toch... zucht.
Hij reageerde trouwens wel sportief toen hij hoorde dat hij gewonnen had: "Oedipus practically invented bad sex, so I'm not in the least bit surprised". Hahaha
Mocht je nieuwsgierig zijn (of gewoon a taste hebben for bad sex writing), dit waren afgelopen december de andere genomineerden:
- On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry
- 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami
- The Final Testament of the Holy Bible by James Frey
- Parallel Stories by Péter Nádas
- 11.22.63 by Stephen King
- The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M Auel
- Dead Europe by Christos Tsiolkas
- Outside the Ordinary World by Dori Ostermiller
- Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy
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