'Freedom' by Jonathan Franzen Nominated for Bad Sex in Fiction Award

There's the Pulitzer, the Man Booker, and the Nobel Literature Prize. And then there's the honor no author wants to get: the Literary Review's Bad Sex in Fiction Award. The British magazine dispenses the award annually "to draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it."

This year's nominees are...

Freedom by Jonathan Franzen (4th Estate)
The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas (Atlantic Books)
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon (Atlantic Books)
Maya by Alastair Campbell (Hutchinson)
A Life Apart by Neel Mukherjee (Constable & Robinson)
Heartbreak by Craig Raine (Atlantic Books)
The Shape of Her by Rowan Somerville (W&N)
Mr Peanut by Adam Ross (Jonathan Cape).

Read the full story at The Literary Review.