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Sat 11 Nov 2009Banville vows to avoid sex
Having been shortlisted once again for the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction award, John Banville jokes that he’ll avoid the subject altogether in the future, writes FIONA McCANN
‘ALBA HAS stepped out of her dress in one flowing, stylised movement, like a torero, the object of all eyes, trailing his cape in the dust before the baffled bull; underneath, she is naked.” So begins the passage from John Banville’s The Infinitiesthat assured him a place on a literary shortlist this week, alongside such luminaries as Philip Roth, Amos Oz and Paul Theroux. Yet Banville is competing with these and six other authors for a plaster foot, the take-home prize for the winner of the Literary Reviewaward for Bad Sex in Fiction.
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