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005			20230718102017.0
008			230705t20232023nyua e b 000 1 eng d
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020			_a9781668006559 _qhc.
020			_a1668006553 _qhc.
035			_a(OCoLC)on1389344787
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050	1	4	_aPS3613.C58539 _bA79 2023
082	0	4	_a813/.6 _223/eng/20230622
100	1		_aMcMillan, Claire, _eauthor. _9138301
245	1	0	_aAlchemy of a blackbird : _ba novel /
250			_aFirst Atria Books hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAtria Books, _c2023.
264		4	_c�2023
300			_a272 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 271-272).
520			_aFleeing the Nazis, painter Remedios Varo and her poet lover await exit papers from a safe house on the Riviera and take refuge in a mysterious bookshop that opens up a world of occult learning that sparks creative genius.
520			_aDesperate to escape the Nazis, painter Remedios Varo and her lover, poet Benjamin Peret, flee Paris for Villa Air Bel, a safe house for artists on the Riviera. Along with Max Ernst, Peggy Guggenheim, and others, the two anxiously wait for exit papers. As the months pass, Remedios begins to sense that the others don't see her as a fellow artist; they have cast her in the stifling role of a surrealist ideal: the beautiful innocent. She finds a refuge in a mysterious bookshop, where she stumbles into a world of occult learning and intensifies an esoteric practice in the tarot that helps her light the bright fire of her creative genius. When travel documents come through, Remedios and Benjamin flee to Mexico where she is reunited with friend and fellow painter Leonora Carrington. Together, the women tap their creativity, stake their independence, and each find their true loves. But it is the tarot that enables them to access the transcendent that lies on the other side of consciousness, to become the truest Surrealists of all.
600	1	0	_aVaro, Remedios, _d1908-1963 _vFiction. _9138364
600	1	0	_aCarrington, Leonora, _d1917-2011 _vFiction. _9138365
650		0	_aWomen painters _vFiction. _9138366
650		0	_aTarot _vFiction.
650		0	_aFemale friendship _vFiction.
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