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November 19, 2009

Nick Cave's Novel Nominated For Bad Sex in Fiction Award...

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Singer Nick Cave has joined Booker winner John Banville, Philip Roth and Paul Theroux on the shortlist for this year’s Bad Sex in Fiction award…The annual prize, awarded by Literary Review magazine, focuses on “redundant passages of sexual description”....“Frankly we would have been offended if he wasn’t shortlisted,” a spokeswoman for Cave told The Guardian. He is nominated for The Death of Bunny Munro.

Excerpt from Nick Cave’s “The Death of Bunny Munroe”
Bunny lies on his back on the sofa. He is naked and his clothes sit in sad, little heaps on the living room floor.



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