4 December 2010
Again, how can you have an award for a year that hasn’t ended yet? But the Literary Review’s annual award for Bad Sex in Fiction this year goes to Rowan Somerville for his novel The Shape of Her, which included such gems as:
Like a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect with a too blunt pin he screwed himself into her.
Laura Miller over at Slate has a nice article on why the Literary Review’s award isn’t such a hot idea. (Other than being premature.)
(Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan)
