A two-sided look at modern love-- and lust-- by two bestselling writers at the top of their form. Two rambunctious, romantic flameouts. One boring wedding. One heated embrace in a quiet coatroom. This is not exactly the recipe for true love. John and Jane's lusty encounter at a friend's wedding isn't really the beginning of anything with any weight to it; even they know that. When they manage to pull back, it occurs to them that they might start this whole thing over properly. They might try getting to know one another first, through letters. What follows is a series of traded confessions-- of their messy histories, their past errors, their big loves, their flaws, and their passions. Each love affair, confessed as honestly as possible, reveals the ways in which Jane and John have grown and changed-- or not changed-- over the years; the people they've hurt, the ones still bruised. The ones who bruised them.Where all of this soul-baring will take them is the burning question behind every letter-- a question that can only be answered when they meet again, finally, in the flesh.

結婚式のクローゼットでの情事から始まる、一見軽薄な出会い。しかし、本書の本質は言葉によって魂の傷を晒し合う「対話の極致」にあります。スティーヴ・アーモンドとジュリアナ・バゴットが交互に紡ぐ書簡は、過去の失敗や滑稽な情事を通じて、現代人が抱える愛への渇望と恐怖を鮮烈に浮き彫りにします。 映像化作品では、二人の化学反応が瑞々しい映像美で補完されていますが、原作の醍醐味はテキスト特有の「内省の深さ」にあります。告白という儀式を経て、即物的な欲望が真の親密さへと昇華していく過程は、活字だからこそ味わえる贅沢な体験です。自己の醜ささえも愛の糧とする二人の魂の遍歴を、ぜひその目で確かめてください。