November 28th, 2007 by ThunderDragon
This passage has won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award, which is given to “draw attention to the crude, tasteless, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel, and to discourage it.”
His mouth lathered with her sap, he turned around and embraced her face with all the passion of his own lips and face, ready at last to grind into her with the Hound, drive it into her piety.
- Norman Mailer, The Castle in the Forest
- Norman Mailer, The Castle in the Forest
I’m not surprised in the least. That really was bad. And there are many many more passages like that out there. We can but hope this award will indeed discourage it…
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Is the HOUND some sort of rabbit?
(coughs and leaves)
M.
From the context, it sounds more like it’s supposed to represent a certain appendage…