false 3045410 190649 41541 0765356171 9780765356178 22 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169677179m/41541.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169677179s/41541.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41541.The_Prestige 3.63 134 The Washington Post called this "a dizzying magic show of a novel, chock-a-block with all the props of Victorian sensation fiction: seances, 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." Winner of the 1996 World Fantasy Award, The Prestige is even better than that, because unlike many Victorians, 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.]]> 23419 3.74 2342 452 1995 5 1 false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 17:10:15 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 17:16:37 -0700 2007
The setting is in present day, with descendants of two famous magicians trying to...more...]]>