Former Smiths frontman beats ‘piggate biography of prime minister to join eight contenders for most toe-curling depiction of ‘full-figured copulationThe sweat,the groans, the spasming muscles, and the licked ears and other bits,the pendulous breasts and other bits; it can only be time for the bad sex prize, established 23 years ago by the Literary Review “to draw attention to poorly written, and perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in contemporary fiction,and to discourage them”. There is absolutely no sign that it is succeeding in its noble objective.
Eight books maintain made the shortlist, but the pig’s head and the prime minister maintain fallen at the first fence, and although the judges evidently lingered over the suggestion. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com