The Prestige

Name: The Prestige
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.7 (7 reviews)
Author: Christopher Priest
ISBN: 9781441721525

Author: Christopher Priest

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 12 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 01/01/2006

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during a fraudulent sance. From this moment on, they are embroiled in a rivalry that will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences. Their legacy will pass on an inscrutable puzzle to their descendants.

About Christopher Priest

Christopher Priest's novels have built him an inimitable dual reputation as a contemporary literary novelist and a leading figure in modern SF and fantasy. His novel THE PRESTIGE is unique in winning both a major literary prize (THE JAMES TAIT BLACK AWARD and a major genre prize THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD); THE SEPARATION won both the ARTHUR C. CLARKE and the BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION AWARDS. THE ISLANDERS won both the BSFA and John W. Campbell awards. He was selected for the original BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS in 1983.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Glenn on May 24, 2022

"My error, at first, was to assume that the sheer brilliance of the effect would be enough to dazzle my audiences. What I was neglecting was one of the oldest axioms of magic, that the miracle of the trick must be made clear by the presentation. Audiences are not easily misled, so the magician must......more

Goodreads review by Bionic Jean on October 25, 2024

The Prestige is a novel by Christopher Priest, which was first published in 1995. It is a very imaginative and skilful novel about illusionists: two stage magicians in late 1800s England, who are deadly rivals, involved in a sustained and ongoing feud. They are mutually antagonistic throughout their......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on February 10, 2017

Really amazing. I thought I knew the real story based on the movie, but I was WRONG. I love the epistolary nature of the novel and how the story stretches through time, but my favorite bits were all between the two warring illusionists. I can't believe how far the two of them went to prolong their fe......more