The result is a novel that becomes more exhilarating and profound with each new layer and revelation. Hernan Diaz’s Trust brilliantly puts the story of these characters into conversation with other accounts–and in tension with the life and perspective of a young woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. This is the mystery at the center of a successful 1938 novel entitled Bonds, which all of New York seems to have read. At what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? Rumors about Benjamin’s financial maneuvers and Helen’s reclusiveness start to spread–all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But the secrets around their affluence and grandeur incites gossip. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon she is the brilliant daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Provocative and propulsive, Trust engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of relationships, the reality-warping gravitational pull of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate the truth.Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. The result is a novel that spans an entire century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation. Hernan Diaz's Trust elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with each other-and in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. But there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center of Bonds, a successful 1938 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealth-all as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end.
He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats.
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask.
Longlisted for The Booker Prize 2022 A literary puzzle about money, power, and intimacy, Trust is a novel that challenges the myths shrouding wealth, and the fictions that often pass for history.
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