The Prestige

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“A brilliant conjuring act by one of the master illusionists of our time.”

“Extraordinary—like a dazzling magic act!”

“A dizzying magic show of a novel, chock-a-block with all the props of Victorian sensation fiction: séances, multiple narrators, a family curse, doubles, a lost notebook, wraiths, and disembodied spirits; a haunted house, awesome mad-doctor machinery, a mausoleum, and ghoulish horrors; a misunderstood scientist, impossible disappearances; the sins of the fathers visited upon their descendants…Imagine Possession rewritten by Barbara Vine, or Robertson Davies at his most smoothly diabolical. A brilliantly constructed entertainment!”

“Hypnotic…The Prestige provides the satisfaction of an ambitious and well-told entertainment.”

“Nothing quite prepares you for the sinister complexity and imaginative flair of The Prestige…Magnificently eerie.”

“Enthrallingly odd…This is a complex tale that must have been extremely difficult to tell in exactly the right sequence, while still maintaining a series of shocks to the very end. Priest has brought it off with great imagination and skill.”

“Priest’s remarkable novel [has] been produced as an audiobook every bit as remarkable…Hearing Vance mellifluously pronounce words like ‘prestidigitator’ as if they were part of his normal speech makes the book worth the time, but there is so much more…Vance expertly portrays these two men as their lives (and their tricks) are slowly revealed.”

“Priest writes crisp, unencumbered prose. And anyone who’s ever thrilled to the arcing electricity in the ‘It’s alive!’ scene in Frankenstein will relish the ‘special effects’ by none other than Nikola Tesla.”

“A taut, twisting, prize-winning story…An unexpectedly compelling fusion of weird science and legerdemain.”

“Beautifully written…Priest masters the merging of SF and mainstream, and The Prestige is his finest novel to date.”

“It’s difficult to say how long it’s been since I’ve been so enthralled with an audiobook…[Vance’s] performance was stellar. Because of his subtle care, the surprises of the novel were enhanced…The result is an intricate web that is slowly unraveled throughout the book. It’s an audiobook that merits a second listen…An SFFAudio Essential.”

“A marvelously scary entertainment with one of the creepiest final revelations in recent years. Don’t miss the magic show!”

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