Nancy Huston: Passage

Nancy Huston Dept: The annual contest by Britain s Literary Review draws attention to the crude, badly written, often perfunctory use of redundant passages of sexual description in the modern novel. This year, eight contemporary writers are nominated, according to CBC. The offending passage: This is when I take my picture, from deep inside the loving. The Canon is part of my body. I myself am the ultrasensitive film capturing invisible reality, capturing heat and nancy Huston, a Canadian-born writer living in Paris, has received a dubious honour a nomination for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award. Nancy Huston is nominated for the Bad Sex in Fiction Award for a passage from Infrared, her latest novel. Laurent Rebours/Canadian Press Huston is named for her book Infrared , her own translation of a novel she originally wrote in French, Infrarouge, about a free-spirited photographer who finds herself trapped on a holiday tour with her elderly father and his wife, a woman with whom she feels no connection. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.