A strange mystery has haunted Andrew's life and his search for the answer leads him to Kate and the story of the feud.įrom there the novel takes us back some 130 years and relates, in two separate sections, the life stories of Alfred Borden and Rupert Angier. The Prestige is the story of two feuding magicians from the late 19th Century, the aristocratic Rupert Angier and his working-class nemesis, Alfred Borden, and how that feud affects later generations of their families, personified in the mid-1990s by Borden's descendent Andrew Westley and Kate Angier. An excellent film version by Christopher Nolan ( Batman Begins, Memento) starring Hugh Jackman and Scarlett Johansson, was released in late 2006. It is Priest's best-known novel and apparently his most successful.
It was first published in 1995 and won the World Fantasy Award for that year. The Prestige is the ninth novel by the British SF author Christopher Priest.
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