{"product_id":"2940013932647","title":"The Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria","description":"The year is 1941, and Hitler's armies have swept across Europe. Nora, a budding young Surrealist artist, has fled to Mexico with B.B., a much older and acclaimed Surrealist playwright down on his luck. Hundreds of European artists and writers have formed a colony in Mexico City, and Nora befriends Valencia, a fellow Surrealist artist and refugee.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTogether the friends explore Jungian psychology and the power of symbols in their Art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Nora is plagued by an abusive relationship with B.B. She embarks on a harrowing journey deep into her own troubled psyche.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by the lives of the brilliant visionary Surrealist artists Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington. A Postscript and a list of Sources follows the story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Sixty-third Anniversary of Hysteria was published in Full Spectrum 5 (Bantam, Ed. Jennifer Hershey), which included stories by Jonathan Lethem, Karen Joy Fowler, and Neal Stephenson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of Summer of Love, A Time Travel (A Philip K. Dick Award Finalist and San Francisco Chronicle Recommended Book), The Gilded Age, A Time Travel (A New York Times Notable Book and New York Public Library Recommended Book), Celestial Girl (A Lily Modjeska Mystery), The Garden of Abracadabra, Volume 1 of the Abracadabra Series, and Strange Ladies: 7 Stories.","brand":"Bast Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47070540431600,"sku":"2940013932647","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013932647_p0.jpg?v=1763597461","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013932647","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}