An over-reliance on coy terms such as family jewels
, back door
and front parlour
has won acclaimed American novelist David Guterson the dubious accolade of the Literary Review’s bad sex in fiction award.
Guterson, who took the literary world by storm in 1994 with his bestselling debut Snow Falling on Cedars, snaffled the bad sex prize for his fifth novel, Ed King, a modern reimagining of the Oedipus myth. His win was announced in the apt setting of the In & Out Club in London by Carry On star Barbara Windsor; although the American writer was unable to accept his award of a plaster foot in person, he took his triumph in good spirits, saying in response that Oedipus practically invented bad sex, so I’m not in the least bit surprised
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
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