Trust
416 pages | paperback |
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An unparalleled novel about money, power, intimacy, and perception
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealthĆ¢ā¬āall as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center ofĆ Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.
Ć Ć Ć Ć Hernan DiazĆ¢ā¬ā¢sĆ TRUSTĆ elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one anotherĆ¢ā¬āand in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation.
Ć Ć At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle,Ć TRUSTĆ engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.
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416 pages | paperback |
Ć
Ć
An unparalleled novel about money, power, intimacy, and perception
Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats. Together, they have risen to the very top of a world of seemingly endless wealthĆ¢ā¬āall as a decade of excess and speculation draws to an end. But at what cost have they acquired their immense fortune? This is the mystery at the center ofĆ Bonds, a successful 1937 novel that all of New York seems to have read. Yet there are other versions of this tale of privilege and deceit.
Ć Ć Ć Ć Hernan DiazĆ¢ā¬ā¢sĆ TRUSTĆ elegantly puts these competing narratives into conversation with one anotherĆ¢ā¬āand in tension with the perspective of one woman bent on disentangling fact from fiction. The result is a novel that spans over a century and becomes more exhilarating with each new revelation.
Ć Ć At once an immersive story and a brilliant literary puzzle,Ć TRUSTĆ engages the reader in a quest for the truth while confronting the deceptions that often live at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping force of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.
