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- Edition:
- Unabridged (Blackstone Audiobooks)
- Length:
- 12 hours, 16 minutes
- File Size:
- 337 MB (10 files)
- Published:
- October 2006
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Summary
Winner of the World Fantasy Award
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.
Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers—but with terrible consequences. In the course of pursuing each other's ruin, they will deploy all the deception their magician's craft can command, the highest misdirection and the darkest science. Blood will be spilled, but it will not be enough. In the end, their legacy will pass on for generations to descendants who must, for their sanity’s sake, untangle their puzzle.
Quotes from the Critics
"Electrifying effects and a deft handling of mysteries and their explanations...in an unexpectedly compelling fusion of weird science and legerdemain." - Kirkus
"[A] brilliantly constructed entertainment, with a plot as simple and intricate as a nest of Chines boxes....Priest recreates the music-hall world of 1890s London, discloses the hard work and training behind successful magic, and hints increasingly that certain stage marvels may in fact violate physical laws. The result if a dizzying magic show of a novel, chockablock with all the props of Victorian sensation fiction...." - Washington Post Book World
"Narrative deceptions permeate...Christopher Priest's ambitious novel of two rival 19th-century stage magicians....The thematic focus of this eerie tale is on mysteries of identity, but the chief delight is an invention made by a cash-strapped Nikola Tesla for one of the rivals....Even if you guess how Priest accomplishes his miracles, you are guaranteed to enjoy this brilliant conjuring act by one of the master illusionists of our time." - Wired
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