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The prestige by christopher priest5/13/2023 ![]() "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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