The Prestige by Christopher Priest (1995) **Warning: Spoilers for both book and movie!** “Just as a magic act should be: filled with haunting marvels.You can read the blog, or you can click on one of the icons below to listen to the podcast version! Click HERE for more listening options! Don't miss the magic show!” - Gahan Wilson, Realms of Fantasy “ The Prestige is in every way a marvelously scary entertainment with one of the creepiest final revelations in recednt years. The Prestige provides the satisfaction of an ambitious and well-told entertainment.” - San Francisco Chronicle
“Remarkably akin to the style of the late Robertson Davies.Priest has brought it off with great imagination and skill.” - Publishers Weekly on The Prestige
“A taut, twisting, prize-winning story of two magicians and their fierce fin-de-siècle rivalry that taints successive generations of their respective families.An unexpectedly compelling fusion of weird science and legerdemain.” - Kirkus on The Prestige Priest masters the merging of SF and mainstream, and The Prestige is his finest novel to date.” - New Scientist on The Prestige The pioneer of electrical power, Nikola Tesla, appears in a supporting role to say more would reveal too much. It's a story of utter fakery and scientific audacity. Two magicians vie with each other to create the perfect illusion: vanishing from one part of the stage and reappearing instantaneously in another. Magnificently eerie.” - Anthony Quinn, The Sunday Times “Nothing quite prepares you for the sinister complexity and imaginative flair of The Prestige. “As ingenious as it is suspenseful.” - Newsday on The Prestige
A brilliantly constructed entertainment!” - The Washington Post on The Prestige “A dizzying show of a novel.Imagine Possession rewritten by Barbara Vine, or Robertson Davies at his most smoothly diabolical. “Extraordinary-like a dazzling magic act!” - Entertainment Weekly on The Prestige
“One of our most gifted writers.” - John Fowles on The Prestige “A brilliant conjuring act by one of the master illusionists of our time.” - Wired on The Prestige
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