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21 Nov 2009 07:12 pm
Bad Sex In Fiction Awards
The finalists are in. Few literary hounds are surprised by this entry:
The Pulitzer prize-winning [Philip] Roth makes the line-up for
The Humbling, in which the ageing actor Simon converts Pegeen, a
lesbian, to heterosexuality. The Literary Review singled out a scene in
which Simon and Pegeen pick up a girl from a bar and convince her to
take part in a threesome. Simon looks on as Pegeen uses her green dildo
to great effect.
"This was not soft porn. This was no longer two
unclothed women caressing and kissing on a bed. There was something
primitive about it now, this woman-on-woman violence, as though in the
room filled with shadows, Pegeen were a magical composite of shaman,
acrobat, and animal. It was as if she were wearing a mask on her
genitals, a weird totem mask, that made her into what she was not and
was not supposed to be."
Hitch reviewed Roth's Exit Ghost a few years back and similarly gagged.
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