Among competition that was ahem stiffer than usual, the Canadian novelist was a worthy winner for her astonishingly perfunctory erotic passages. Nancy Huston won the 20th annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award for Infrared, a novel whose central character, Rena Greenblatt, is a photographer who enjoys nothing more than taking infrared snaps of her lovers mid-canoodle.
Just so you know what the competition was like. At least crammed into the London venue. Huston, a Canadian, writes her books in French and then translates them into English herself.
Only the third woman to win the Bad Sex Award, her latest novel left the judges wondering what exactly was lost in translation. Like a wubbering springboard. His ejaculate jumped the length of her arm. Eight diminishing gouts. The first too high for her to lick. Right on the shoulder. I dug after what I had always imagined and came up with even more.
He understands the basic groundwork, has visited the orchard like a hungry finch, has gorged on the fruit and rejected the pips, has explored the geography. Chun-li faked an orgasm, keeping her mind focused on an eighth-century lyric of sadness, and her face still as a lake in winter.
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