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The Prestige is a 1995 novel by British writer Christopher Priest (Christopher Priest (English novelist)). The novel is epistolary (Epistolary novel) in structure; that is, it purports to be a collection of real diaries that were kept by the protagonists and later collated. The title derives from the novels fictional practice of stage illusions having three parts: the setup, the performance, and the prestige (effect).
The novel received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for best fiction and the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
Author: Christopher Priest (Christopher Priest (English novelist))
Language: English
Publisher: Gollancz (Victor Gollancz Ltd)
Pub Date: 1995
Media Type: Print
Isbn: ISBN 0-575-07580-5