Levitation: Physics and Psychology in the Service of Deception

• Levitation tells the story of the most dazzling gravity-defying illusion ever performed on stage, and features a cast of characters that seems almost too good to be true: John Neville Maskelyne, the very proper scientist-magician and the trick's inventor; Harry Kellar, the brash American who fails to buy the illusion, so steals it instead; Howard Thurston, the handsome and charismatic performer who inherits the act from Kellar; and Guy Jarrett, the rough-and-tumble engineer who perfects the levitation and guides us through the unfolding drama. But true it is -- you'll never look at magic, or the mysteries of science -- the same way again.

Author: Jim Ottaviani
Publisher: G.T. Labs
Published: 07/31/2007
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.88h x 6.61w x 0.22d
ISBN: 9780978803704

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/21/2007 pg. 42
Booklist 07/01/2007 pg. 46
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2007 pg. 271 - Recommended - Better Than Most

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