[SKRIVA] Dåligsex-priset

From: Ahrvid Engholm <ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:49:07 +0100
Bad Sex-priset utdelades tidigare i december till David Guterson:
 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/06/david-guterson-bad-sex-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".
Guterson edged out strong competition from Haruki Murakami's long-awaited new 
novel 1Q84, which sees the Japanese writer pen the immortal line: "A freshly 
made ear and a freshly made vagina look very much alike, Tengo thought".
Chris Adrian's The Great Night, in which an "impossibly eloquent cock" is 
wielded to great effect as it "poked her now from the front and now from the 
back and now from the side", and Lee Child's The Affair ("Then it was time. We 
started tenderly. Long and slow, long and slow. Deep and easy. She flushed and 
gasped. So did I. Long and slow") also provided stiff competition, said the 
Literary Review.
But Guterson was the "clear winner", said the Literary Review's assistant 
editor Jonathan Beckman, with judges swayed by a scene introduced as "the part 
where a mother has sex with her son", and including the passages: "these sorts 
of gyrations and five-sense choreographies, with variations on Ed's main 
themes, played out episodically between 10 pm and 10 am, when Diane said, 
'Let's shower'"; and "she took him by the wrist and moved the base of his hand 
into her pubic hair until his middle fingertip settled on the no-man's-land 
between her 'front parlour' and 'back door' (those were the quaint, prudish 
terms of her girlhood)".'
 
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