HOUDINI his life 1996

Houdini’s name will surely remind many of Milos Forman’s film Ragtime. But how many people know that the most famous liberator of all time, Erik Weiss, was born in Hungary? In his richly detailed and impressively exciting book, Kenneth Silverman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, recounts how Houdini’s career has become one of the greatest celebrities, introducing him as an inventor, boxing fan, pilot, writer and film actor. The volume illustrates with dazzling imagery the dazzling magic and escape figures with which he has had tremendous success worldwide. Houdini’s name has now become synonymous with death-defying courage and inexplicable deliverance. Silverman doesn’t bring to life the well-known Houdini anecdotes, but explores the life of a mage with fresh eyes and the toughness of a hunter-gatherer. The greatest merit of his book is that he conjures up a colorful drawing around his protagonist that almost sucks the reader in. He deserves a round of applause for his extremely original and in-depth presentation of the handcuff king and his world. – The New York Times Book Review
Language: Hungarian