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McMillan, Claire, author.
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Varo, Remedios, 1908-1963 -- Fiction.
Carrington, Leonora, 1917-2011 -- Fiction.
Women painters -- Fiction.
Poets -- Fiction.
Tarot -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
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Alchemy of a blackbi...
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Alchemy of a blackbird : a novel / Claire McMillan.
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McMillan, Claire, author.
New York : Atria Books, 2023.
Subjects
Varo, Remedios, 1908-1963 -- Fiction.
Carrington, Leonora, 1917-2011 -- Fiction.
Women painters -- Fiction.
Poets -- Fiction.
Tarot -- Fiction.
Female friendship -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781668006559 (hardcover)
1668006553 (hardcover)
Description:
272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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First Atria Books hardcover edition.
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Desperate 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.
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