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005			20230725135421.0
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020			_a9781668006559 _q(hardcover)
020			_a1668006553 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1389344787 _z(OCoLC)1347430173 _z(OCoLC)1374488806 _z(OCoLC)1390800104
092			_aMCMILLAN _bCLAIRE
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aMcMillan, Claire, _eauthor. _914415
245	1	0	_aAlchemy of a blackbird : _ba novel / _cClaire McMillan.
250			_aFirst Atria Books hardcover edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bAtria Books, _c2023.
300			_a272 pages : _billustrations ; _c23 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _bsti _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
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.
600	1	0	_aCarrington, Leonora, _d1917-2011 _vFiction.
650		0	_aWomen painters _vFiction. _955781
650		0	_aTarot _vFiction. _9215516
650		0	_aFemale friendship _vFiction. _919755
655		7	_aHistorical fiction. _2lcgft _9683
655		7	_aBiographical fiction. _2lcgft _9682
655		7	_aNovels. _2lcgft _92408
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