The Slap, by Australian author Christos Tsiolkas, has been shortlisted for another award. This time it's the dubious honor of a nomination in the British Bad Sex in Fiction Awards.
Despite all the glowing praise I'm not a fan of the book and I thought the judges comments were entirely reasonable, they highlighted one particular passage where
two characters ''f---ed for ages'' in the family home of one, ''standing up, her skirt bunched around her ankles, his jeans pulled down to his knees, moaning into each other, the drug keeping him hard and allowing him to forestall climaxing''.
Jonathan Beckman, the assistant editor of the Literary Review, which gives the annual award, said the sheer quantity of sex also weighed heavily in the judges' choice. ''It's very repetitive,'' he said. ''The sheer laziness of saying 'they f---ed for ages' is just one example of slack writing.''
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I think he's in with a good chance of taking this one. His competition includes Freedom by Jonathan Franzen and Maya by Alastair Campbell (adviser to former British PM Tony Blair.)
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