A book that is told through two journals one a memoir and the other a series of journal entries relaying the events, secrets, and lives of two men obsessed with their art as an accretive and perpetuating resentment promises mutually assured destruction. The story begins and ends in modern day England but for most of the book we are transported back to Victorian England with its gas lit cobbled streets and to an era obsessed with the ‘theatrical’ and magic. The illusionists, the magicians, and the great pretenders. This is the story of Rupert Angier and Alfred Borden. Four magical stars for a book of “acquiescent sorcery” as the reader is plunged into the deviously powerful and enchanting world of magic and illusion, mixed with the dark and profane jealousy that dangerously consumes two of the most prominent magicians of their time.
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