![]() ![]() The novel isn’t just about the way history and biography are written it’s a demonstration of that process. In summary Trust is an elegant, irresistible puzzle. Hernan Diazs second novel, Trust, is a collection of four manuscripts at different stages of completion, and they tell different versions of the story of a Wall Street businessman and his. The Bevels’ competing narratives are mediated by a long postmortem memoir, written by Ida Partenza, once the gullible ghostwriter of Andrew’s book. ![]() ![]() The first few pages of Futures, the scribbled diaries of Andrew’s wife, Mildred, have been randomly ripped out. It recognizes the human costs of a great fortune, even though its characters can see. My Life is the partial autobiography of Andrew Bevel, clearly the model for the tycoon in Bonds, strewn with half-finished chapters and paragraph outlines. For Trust always acknowledges the world that lies outside its own pages. In the first part, Bonds, ostensibly a bestselling novel authored by one Harold Vanner, a monkish mogul manages to make a massive windfall during the 1929 stock market crash while his wife tragically succumbs to mental illness far away in Switzerland. Trust, one of T&Cs must-read books of spring 2022, is the story of a Wall Street tycoon in the 1920s told in four layered narratives. It is a collection of four manuscripts at different stages of completion, and they tell different versions of the story of a Wall Street businessman and his wife in the years leading up to the Great Depression. Quizlit’s Book of the Month for April 2023 is Trust by Hernan Diaz ![]()
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