Product Details
Simon & Schuster Audio, October 2006
eAudio
ISBN-10: 0743561937
ISBN-13: 9780743561938
Description
Handcuff King. Escape Artist. International Superstar. Since his death eighty years ago, Harry Houdini's life has been chronicled in books, in film, and on television. Now, in this groundbreaking biography, renowned magic expert William Kalush and bestselling writer Larry Sloman team up to find the man behind the myth. Drawing from millions of pages of research, they describe in vivid detail the passions that drove Houdini to perform ever-more-dangerous feats, his secret life as a spy, and a pernicious plot to subvert his legacy.
The Secret Life of Houdini traces the arc of the master magician's life from desperate poverty to worldwide fame -- his legacy later threatened by a group of fanatical Spiritualists led by esteemed British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Initiating the reader along the way into the arcane world of professional magic, Kalush and Sloman decode a life based on deception, providing an intimate and riveting portrayal of Houdini, the man and the legend.
"Kalush and Sloman appear to have raked through every known Houdini archive to produce the most comprehensive and controversial biography ever written about the man, with its contention that he was a spy who may have been murdered by a cult."
-- Tony Barrell, London Sunday Times
Helium, May 5, 2009
...admiring and later furiously denouncing him while still keeping his name and using tricks inspired by him. The Secret life of Houdini includes a number of letters and journal experts and a high quality photographs. One can tell this book is ...
Lancashire Telegraph, January 19, 2009
...wretched town?, a new book has revealed. Previously unseen extracts from his diary in the new book The Secret Life of Houdini recount a performance that he gave at the Palace Theatre in Blackburn Boulevard in October 1902. Houdini was on a ...
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