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Nights at the Circus, by Angela Carter
Is Sophia Fevvers a fact? Or is she fiction? These questions lie at the heart of Angela Carter's increasingly weird—but always interesting—Nights at the Circus. Jack Walser, American journalist, interviews Fevvers in the first part of the book. He attended her strange aerealiste show and made notes to check up on things later. Does she have a navel? How does she manage to hover in the air so long? When he meets her in her dressing room after the show, Fevvers tells her story in such a hypnotic way that Walser falls under her spell. Then he runs away with a circus to learn more about the strange woman with wings.
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