*SPOILERS THROUGHOUT*
The Prestige by Christopher Priest is a science fiction mystery novel that is written partially as a narrative and partially in an epistolary style. The novel focuses on the rivalry between two magicians based in London during the time of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. This same rivalry is more than a legacy, and shadows the family’s names for one hundred years into the future. This is why the descendants of the two magicians narrate the novel. Rupert Angier is an aristocrat who was enticed by magic at a very young age. He quickly makes himself well know by conducting fake séances (meeting where people try to make contact with the dead). His rival, Alfred Borden, is his inverse, he does magic as a career. The rivalry
The Prestige by Christopher Priest is a science fiction mystery novel that is written partially as a narrative and partially in an epistolary style. The novel focuses on the rivalry between two magicians based in London during the time of the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. This same rivalry is more than a legacy, and shadows the family’s names for one hundred years into the future. This is why the descendants of the two magicians narrate the novel. Rupert Angier is an aristocrat who was enticed by magic at a very young age. He quickly makes himself well know by conducting fake séances (meeting where people try to make contact with the dead). His rival, Alfred Borden, is his inverse, he does magic as a career. The rivalry