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Dec. 13th, 2004 10:56 pmTom Wolfe wins bad sex award
Passage in 'Charlotte Simmons' called 'ghastly'
Monday, December 13, 2004 Posted: 4:06 PM EST (2106 GMT)
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- American author and journalist Tom Wolfe won one of the world's most dreaded literary accolades on Monday -- the British prize for bad sex in fiction.
The prize is awarded each year "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel."
Wolfe won it for a couple of purple passages from his latest novel "I am Charlotte Simmons," a tale of campus life at an exclusive U.S. university.
"Slither slither slither slither went the tongue," one of his winning sentences begins.... (if you can bear to read on, the rest of the article can be found here)
Passage in 'Charlotte Simmons' called 'ghastly'
Monday, December 13, 2004 Posted: 4:06 PM EST (2106 GMT)
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- American author and journalist Tom Wolfe won one of the world's most dreaded literary accolades on Monday -- the British prize for bad sex in fiction.
The prize is awarded each year "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel."
Wolfe won it for a couple of purple passages from his latest novel "I am Charlotte Simmons," a tale of campus life at an exclusive U.S. university.
"Slither slither slither slither went the tongue," one of his winning sentences begins.... (if you can bear to read on, the rest of the article can be found here)
