num_pages: 292
description: In a pivotal moment, Nadir Birdgrave sells his early sketches for Blue Peal #7 to his fifth stalker, a middle-school substitute teacher named Katarina M. Katarina, in a consolatory email to Mr. Birdgrave, reproaches a derisive critic who supposed that Mr. Birdgrave created the Blue Peal series by "merely looping the rope of his theme through the grommet of his experience and hoisting the flag of his vanity up the pole of his . . ." etc., etc. An empathic nocturnal poet, Katarina, stalking for advice, scours Mr.She resents Mr. Birdgrave's temporary Blue Peal affair with commercialism, which undermines Katarina's reputation, among the members of her Thursday sushi club, as a connoisseur of raw integrity. Katarina, bootsneaking in Michigan, unearths Mr. Birdgrave, brooding over his latest work, Johnny An Amatory Allegory. She extorts from her ruffled quarry a mug of port and the first half of a cautionary tale, which Nadir uncorks with the screw of his recovered levity. He decants the opening phrase, "in a pivotal moment," into the thirsty ears of Katarina the Only.
language: English
title: The Leap and Other Mistakes
titlecomplete: The Leap and Other Mistakes
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Xlibris Corp