Guterson’s Oedipus Redux Wins Bad Sex in Fiction Prize in U.K.
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David Guterson won the U.K.’s “most dreaded literary prize,” the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, for a torrid romp between a mother and her son in “Ed King,” a recasting of the Oedipus myth.
Presented during a ceremony last night at the Naval & Military Club on St. James’s Square, London, the prize was granted for a 12-hour sequence of what Guterson calls “gyrations and five-sense choreographies” -- ending with a morning shower during which she “abused him with a bar of soap.”