The Prestige
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Two 19th century stageillusionists, the aristocratic Rupert Angier and the working-classAlfred Borden, engage in a bitter and deadly feud; the effects are stillbeing felt by their respective families a hundred years later. Workingin the gaslight-and-velvet world of Victorian music halls, they prowledgily in the background of each other's shadowy life, driven to theextremes by a deadly combination of obsessive secrecy and insatiablecuriosity. At the heart of the row is an amazing illusion they bothperform during their stage acts. The secret of the magic is simple, andthe reader is in on it almost from the start, but to the antagonists thereal mystery lies deeper. Both have something more to hide than themere workings of a trick.
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Data sheet
- Name of the Author
- Christopher Priest
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780575114968
- Release date
- 2011
