false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180000601m/983615.jpg 983615 2 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 Red: 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. 969110 5 12 2000 The Leap and Other Mistakes total:2|5:1|4:1| 2 9 3 0 4 0 false false Sun Aug 23 20:08:08 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 12 18:08:15 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 23 20:08:08 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 31 11:34:13 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 11:34:13 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jun 07 14:02:40 -0700 2007 Thu Jun 07 14:02:40 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=983615