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The Prestige

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The Prestige

Written by: Christopher Priest
Narrated by: Simon Vance
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In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose each other. In the course of pursuing each other's ruin, they will deploy all the deception their magician's craft can command. Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences. In the end, their legacy will be passed on for generations to descendants who must, for their sanity's sake, untangle the puzzle left to them.©1995 Christopher Priest (P)2006 Blackstone Audio Inc. Fantasy Genre Fiction Historical Literary Fiction Movie, TV & Video Game Tie-Ins Science Fiction

Critic Reviews

  • Winner of the World Fantasy Award, 1996
  • Audie Award Finalist, Fiction, Unabridged, 2007

"Extraordinary, like a dazzling magic act!" (Entertainment Weekly)
"A brilliant conjuring act by one of the master illusionists of our time." (Wired)
"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 Reviews)

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If you are one of those who discovered this book through the movie, you'll find that the truth (in this case, the book) is so much more stranger than fiction (the movie). Just when I thought the plot couldn't get any thicker!

Brilliant!

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As expected it was thoroughly engaging and so intriguing and full of precise details in terms of magical apparatus, procedure and life of a magician. The movie is obviously great but the book is something else.

Masterpiece book that lead to the Nolan Movie

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Loved the story, the performance, the twists and turns. Amazing writing. Need to watch the movie now

Mind blowing read. Awesome rendering

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loved the book thanks to the wonderful narration.
The story so different from the Knolan version.

Beautiful narration...Great story

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it was a torture to stop in between... amazing story.. fantastic! what an imagination.

wow

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