Morrissey’s first venture as a novelist has seen him pick up an award…but not one he would have wanted.
His debut novel, List Of The Lost, landed him The Literary Review’s Bad Sex Award, which recognises the “most egregious passage of sexual description in a work of fiction”.
The book’s descriptions of sex, such as the following, were criticised…
‘Eliza’s breasts barrel-rolled across Ezra’s howling mouth and the pained frenzy of his bulbous salutation extenuating his excitement as it whacked and smacked its way into every muscle of Eliza’s body except for the otherwise central zone.’
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Unsurprisingly, Morrissey declined the opportunity to attend the awards ceremony and has since stated that he believed that the reason the book received such negative comments was due to the fact that he was the author.
Writing in an email interview with a Chilean website in October, the former front man of The Smiths appeared less than impressed:
‘I strongly believe in freedom of expression and critics have to say what they have to say,’ he claimed. ‘But often the criticisms are an attack against me as a human being and have nothing to do with what they’re reading.’
