An ambitious and frequently brilliant fictional exploration of the pursuit of pleasure and its ramifying consequences, by the antic author of Girl with Curious Hair (1989), etc. And there's undoubtedly a link between the US tour planned by a Quebec tennis team and the machinations of Quebecois separatists, notably the Dr. Strangelovian Remy Marathe, a triple- or possibly quadruple-agent struggling with his own surreptitious needs.