Earlier this year, one particular extract from Morrissey’s debut novel courted considerable attention as the former Smiths frontman staked his claim as a writer of sex scenes.
Now, that particular extract has been nominated for the Literary Review’s annual Bad Sex in Fiction award, an honour that is reserved for “an outstandingly bad scene of sexual description in an otherwise good novel” as per the Literary Review’s own description.
The book, called List of the Lost, based on “demonology” and a 1970s American relay racing teamm garnered attention for talk of a “bulbous salutation” among other notable descriptions in the one particular scene. Why not treat yourself to a read of said extract again below?
“Eliza and Ezra rolled together into the one giggling snowball of full-figured copulation, screaming and shouting as they playfully bit and pulled at each other in a dangerous and clamorous rollercoaster coil of sexually violent rotation with Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.”
