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12-01-2009, 05:55 PM
The annual prize was contested by literary heavyweights Philip Roth for The Humbling, John Banville for The Infinites and Paul Theroux for A Dead Hand.
However. Littell's ill-advised use of a soft-boiled egg as a simile for orgasmic release saw him beat off the competition to take the prize.
The judges praised what they called Littell's 'ambitious and impressive' novel, which was originally published in French, and sold over 1million copies in its original language.
'It is in part a work of genius,' they said.
'However, a mythologically inspired passage and lines such as "I came suddenly, a jolt that emptied my head like a spoon scraping the inside of a soft-boiled egg" clinched the award for The Kindly Ones. ...
Ill-advised oeuf pr0n (http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/802470-bad-sex-prize-claimed-by-egg-orgasm)
However. Littell's ill-advised use of a soft-boiled egg as a simile for orgasmic release saw him beat off the competition to take the prize.
The judges praised what they called Littell's 'ambitious and impressive' novel, which was originally published in French, and sold over 1million copies in its original language.
'It is in part a work of genius,' they said.
'However, a mythologically inspired passage and lines such as "I came suddenly, a jolt that emptied my head like a spoon scraping the inside of a soft-boiled egg" clinched the award for The Kindly Ones. ...
Ill-advised oeuf pr0n (http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/802470-bad-sex-prize-claimed-by-egg-orgasm)