Blue PeriodThe studious Yatora leaves a dry life of study and good manners behind for a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling. Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It's an effortless performance, and, ultimately a dull one. But he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never

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who described the author as "one of our country's greatest jury advocates

whose days are now spent transcribing phone conversations

leaving him doubting the wisdom of past decisions

The quarter century or so before the outbreak of the First World War saw an extraordinary boom in the popularity and quality of short stories in Britain

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