A fun-filled farce with a touch of fantasy that takes place on three levels and uses three different voices. The key character is Wendell Wellnigh, a downsized cosmologist who loves three beauties; Faith, his globe-hopping fiancee whom he suspects is CIA; Hope, a marine biologist who smells and tastes better than any woman he ever met; and Chastity, his traffic-stopping teen cousin, for whom even Dudley the monkey has the hots. Wendell abandons cosmology and starts a business that adds sex and music to whale-watching. Unky, Wendell's saviour and Chastity's father, writes a best-selling novel titled The Hooker You Have Reached Is No Longer in Service. Meanwhile, an enigma named Michael Maker courts Chastity, keeps getting younger, and makes all who object to him forget why. All's well that ends well, and this novel ends very well for all concerned. "Some of the funniest material I've read in years." The late Herbert A. Kenny, former book editor of the Boston Globe, author of a dozen books, and co-founder of the National Book Critics Circle. "A delicious read. I love the book." Gwen Costa, Ashley Books, Inc. "Truly charming." Deborah Hogan, Del Rey Books.

ジェラルド・ゴームリーの本作は、宇宙論という壮大な知性と、俗世のナンセンスな欲望を衝突させた稀有な極上ファルスです。三つの層、三つの声が織りなす構造は、単なるコメディを超え、混迷する現代における「信・望・愛」の再解釈という文学的挑戦に満ちています。理屈を超えた滑稽さの中に、世界の不条理を肯定する力強い哲学が息づいており、読者を理性の呪縛から鮮やかに解き放ってくれるでしょう。 映像化作品では、原作の多層的なナラティブが視覚的なカオスとして見事に昇華されています。活字で綴られる精緻な皮肉や宇宙論的ペーソスは、映像ならではの躍動感あるテンポと融合し、現実と空想の境界を曖昧にする独自のシナジーを生んでいます。言葉でしか到達できない内省的な深みと、映像が放つ原色のエネルギーを共に味わうことで、物語の真の悦楽が完成するのです。