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 "Beautifully written. A brilliantly constructed entertainment!" - The Washington Post on The Prestige "As ingenious as it is suspenseful." - Newsday on The Prestige "Nothing quite prepares you for the sinister complexity and imaginative flair of The Prestige. "A brilliant conjuring act by one of the master illusionists of our time." - Wired on The Prestige "One of our most gifted writers." - John Fowles on The Prestige "Extraordinary-like a dazzling magic act!" - Entertainment Weekly on The Prestige "A dizzying show of a novel.Imagine Possession rewritten by Barbara Vine, or Robertson Davies at his most smoothly diabolical. In the end, their legacy will pass on for generations.to descendants who must, for their sanity's sake, untangle the puzzle left to them.
Blood will be spilled, but it will not be enough.
In the course of pursuing each other's ruin, they will deploy all the deception their magicians' craft can command-the highest misdirection and the darkest science. Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose one another. Winner of the World Fantasy Award Inspiration for the movie directed by Christopher Nolan, starring Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. Now it finally appears in softcover-sophisticated, breathtaking entertainment. Published in hardcover to international acclaim, "The Prestige" won the World Fantasy Award and Britain's James Tait Black Memorial Prize. From that moment on, they vie to outwit and destroy one another. About the Book In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent seance.
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